Your Turn
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2012-12-18/your-turn
President Barack Obama asks Cabinet members for proposals to address gun violence. NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and three crew members were freed after five days of captivity in Syria. Accord on the fiscal cliff may be near. And the nation's second-longest-serving senator, Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, passes away. It's your turn to talk about these headlines and other stories catching your eye.
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Kojo,
Please stop referring to assault rifles as "weapons of mass destruction (WMD)." I'm an Army veteran (over 21 years) and a lifelong member of the Intelligence Community. Assault rifles are NOT weapons of mass destruction (google the term if you don't believe me).
When will we a as a people stop focusing on the tool and focus on the root cause of most of the school violence-- teasing, bullying, and mental illness. I would submit that after these incidents, many who knew the perpetrator come forward and remark that they knew there was something wrong. Yet what was ever done to help such a person? How much of the violence can be attributed to teasing and bullying? Every school in the nation should be having assemblies where administrators discuss this situation and ask the kids why they think such things happen and ask them what they can do about it. Perhaps teasing and bullying would radically decliine if our youth decided they were "uncool" activities. How might they modify their behavior so that they could never be accused of contributing to such an event. But, as usual, people want to take the easy way out and blame guns. If guns kill, then pens lie, and cars cause drunk drivers. Let's start talking about real responsibility here...please?