Paul Harvey read this Letter to the Editor on his news cast. It appeared
in the San Angelo Standard-Times.
"For the life of me, I can't understand what could have gone wrong in
Littleton, Colo. If only the parents had kept their children away from
the guns, we wouldn't have had such a tragedy.
Yeah, it must have been the guns.
It couldn't have been because of half our children being raised in
broken homes.
It couldn't have been because our children get to spend an average of 30
seconds in meaningful conversation with their parents each day.
After all, we give our children quality time.
It couldn't have been because we treat our children as pets and our pets
as children.
It couldn't have been because we place our children in day care centers
where they learn their socialization skills among their peers under the
law of the jungle while employees who have no vested interest in the
children look on and make sure than no blood is spilled.
It couldn't have been because we allow our children to watch, on
average, seven hours of television a day filled with the glorification
of sex and violence that isn't fit for adult consumption.
It couldn't have been because we allow our children to enter into
virtual worlds in which, to win the game, one must kill as many
opponents as possible in the most sadistic way possible.
It couldn't have been because we have sterilized and contracepted our
families down to sizes so small that the children we do have are so
spoiled with material things that they come to equate the receiving of
the material with love.
It couldn't have been because our children, who historically have been
seen as a blessing from God, are now being viewed as either a mistake
created when contraception fails or inconveniences that parents try to
raise in their spare time.
It couldn't have been because our nation is the world leader in
developing a culture of death in which 20 million to 30 million babies
have been killed by abortion.
It couldn't have been because we give two-year prison sentences to
teen-agers who kill their newborns.
It couldn't have been because our school systems teach the children that
they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some
primordial soup of mud by teaching evolution as fact and by handing out
condoms as if they were candy.
It couldn't have been because we teach our children that there are no
laws of morality that transcend us, that everything is relative and that
actions don't have consequences.
What the heck, the president gets away with it.
Nah, it must have been the guns.
GOD BLESS 'EM, BILL CLINTON"