Wednesday, March 4, 2009
I believe that no matter where you live, gun violence is not to be tolerated or thought of as a game. I believe especially in Iraq this should definitely not be encouraged. These children are unjustly subjected to this violence everyday of their lives. They are way more vulnerable to this kind of play than American children. Not to say that the war does not affect children in this country but the war is not in their backyards and around their homes. Our children are affected another way their family members are going over seas to fight this war. War is never the answer, there is always time for peace, this world is big enough for everyone to live happily. However, if we allow children this young to be tainted by war then our world has no future. It is a sad concept, but I firmly do believe that children are our future and if we do not protect them then our world is lost. Children should not be surrounded by violence, so we should do everything in our power to help them, and this start with not allowing them to play those terrible gun games where they shout things like "You coward, I will kill you" come out of a six year olds mouth. This must be stopped and controlled if we want our world and our children to stay safe.
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I absolutely agree with Shannon. If the children grow up in Iraq with the same divisive hatreds of their parents (between Sunni & Shiite) there is no hope of peace between the sects... the guns are just an expression of the deeper problems.
ReplyDeleteI agree with all who have posted previously. Children using guns as a toy teaches them that killing and guns are a game and not to be taken more seriously. The children in Iraq need help, perhaps even psychologically, to get them to understand that this is not a joke
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