Was looking at the picture of the little Palestinian kids and I realized something else is wrong with the States.....

A distinct lack of appropriate role models. Who do kids look up to today? Felon sports stars, rock & rap "artists", drug dealers with flashy cars and wads of cash....

Fathers are absent, either working 16 hour days or just plain gone. The dissolution of the nuclear family has removed an important part of a young man's life.

My son, while I am gone quite a bit, is glued to my hip when I am home. We're inseparable- we work on my car, go fishing and hunting, we go to the shooting range, we play soccer and basketball, we go to the gym together, anything and everything with the exception of hitting the latrine and quality time with the wife includes him.

I teach him things like respect for his elders, reverence for all religions, honesty, honor and shame.

When he does something wrong he is ashamed of it, embarassed. I don't tell him it's OK and mollycoddle him- he gets punished- then it is forgotten about. RARELY does he make the same error.

Maybe if American parents took a more active role in their children's life instead of treating them like fashion accessories they'd have the internal moral compass to not kill someone whether it be by firearm or other means..........