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Originally Posted by Jehu Salinger
....but unfortunately, the amount of pressure youngsters are under nowadays (adolescent boys and girls shouldn't have to live under the same kind of stress of having to do school, work in the weekends, have hobbies, find a girlfriend, have a social life, have to fit in, etc...) can really get some kids to break down in a way modern day society doesn't know how to cope with, since everything has to be positive, and especially since apparantly every ache can be cured...
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These are the exact same "stresses" that I experienced as a teen in the 'nineties and that my parents experienced as teens in the 'sixties. I grew up in a rural area with guns all over the place. In my parents day, there were even gun clubs in the schools. I was about ten years old the first time I fired a gun. Guns were (and in rural Kansas, still are) just a part of the peaceful fabric of everyday life. And taking a gun to school and shooting people was just so inconceivably WRONG that the very idea just wouldn't have occurred to us.
Somehow, we have lost the idea of wrong. Things aren't wrong anymore, they are merely 'inappropriate' or 'unwise choices,' or 'unacceptable.' And whatever I do, it's not my fault anyway, it because of society, or the economic system... or it's racism, ...
Lindy