JERRY AGAR

Ban Bullets? No. Find Fathers? Yes.

Posted By: Jerry Agar · 6/18/2012 9:48:00 PM

We don’t need to ban bullets. We need to find fathers, champion them, and encourage — demand — they step up and be fathers.

Rather than promote populist anti-gun policies, which is the easy thing to do but the least likely to produce a positive result, let’s get back to promoting family. Fathers matter.

When violence occurs, some are quick to blame poverty and lack of employment and opportunity.

But lack of money and employment are symptoms of a disease; lack of fathers.

Guns are also blamed and gun control advocated, but guns are just a tool used by a violent individual.

By the time a young man — disproportionately, it is young men — lets the bullets fly, he has been on the wrong path for some time.

Some of the toughest gun control cities in the U.S. have the most violent crime. The reason is obvious. The gun isn’t the actual problem.

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  1. EdwardM_8180 posted on 06/23/2012 06:12 PM
    Bills 7

    That is the very reason I decided to join this blog you see there is just too much nonsense stated that is not facing the facts we have. For example let me raise one today. Take out the guns that are in the black children, but we have a whole lot of children between age 18 to 23 that are wasted in the province today for they lost classes during The Michel Harris time. You see under Mike Harris and during what he called The Conservatives common sense Revolution into Ontario, he made the schools his victims. The conservatives went after schools and teachers and unions and it became like they were in a war zone. There was a strike today another strike tomorrow and another strike the other day. Now what the people failed to realize is that as Harris was sending in his commonsense revolution, and the schools getting closed, many of the children made the malls the class rooms. Teachers were being abused by the government and the teachers lost any respect they had, and you did not know what was going to happen that day, for you never knew what school was to be closed and what school was to be open. Education became a menace into the entire province. The children that you had at a time are the 18 year olds today harvesting the Conservative Michael Harris revolution. And I am not here to state that all of them, but when did you see such a gun totting youths and only in 18 19 20 year olds as it is today? Nope let us go after blacks let us go after single parents and babies becoming mothers, the one that was shot in Scarborough was he a son of a minor? And they are many out there for reports are stating that in Scarborough the attack was done by about 6 kids, so just how many do you have out there today? We all need to rethink this situation for trust me the solutions thrown out there are simply not working.

    The kids needs to change but so is society.

    EM
    A parent
    1. MichaelP posted on 06/24/2012 08:25 PM
      @EdwardM_8180 blaming this on Mike Harris is about the most ignorant thing one could possibly do. Talk about a pathetic attempt to score political points. You should be ashamed of yourself.

      My wife is a teacher and your summary of events in education under Harris is greatly lacking in accuracy (and she's a lifelong liberal).