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The real reason behind school shootings

Study: Many Teens Overconfident, Have ‘Wildly’ Unrealistic Expectations: Teens today are overconfident and harbor more unrealistic expectations than teens in the 1970s, a study published...

Make gangs illegal

Moore lawmaker sets sights on gang members: Oklahoma State Rep. Paul Wesselhoft is trying to make it a state law where it would be illegal to belong to a gang. Of course some people have a problem...

Close but no cigar

School shootings show shortcomings of American society: This is an editorial from a student at the University of Maine about how the signs were ignored from school shooters Asa Coon and Cho...

Empty holsters and empty minds

Students Strap On Empty Holsters to Protest Gun Restrictions on Campus:College students across the country have been strapping empty holsters around their waists this week to protest laws that...

Should YouTube muzzle the mutants?

Should YouTube play the censor and sentinel?: In the wake of the Jokela High School shooting in Finland News.com has written this article asking if YouTube should censor the parent neglected little...

Parental Vigilance

What turns teens violent? Parents, society need to know: This is an editorial about the two assclowns from Michigan who decapitated an acquaintance just because. It also cites Columbine and Virginia...

Not bullying but parenting

Commentary - It isn't bullying, stupid, it's the parenting: Here we have another editorial about school shooters and would be shooters that pretty much says the same thing that I've been saying for...

Gangs practice ethnic cleansing

LA Gang F13 Accused of Targeting Blacks: According to the article some Latino gangs in L.A. are trying to rid their neighborhoods of blacks. Not just rival black gang members but black people in...