Programing a childs brain

[S.A. Boggs]

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Sam

[free1954]

when I was a kid we all had guns. but no video games. the most violent game we had was fistfights over monopoly. but we didn't use our guns.

[Allen]

when I was a kid we all had guns. but no video games. the most violent game we had was fistfights over monopoly. but we didn't use our guns.

Same here. The Warner Bros cartoons had Elmer Fudd shooting Daffy Duck but all it did was suet up his face. Still, as a very young pre-school age kid I knew not to shoot or even point an unloaded gun at someone.

[blackhawknj]

When I was a kid-in the 1950s-we had the guns but not the drugs. Also I think parents took parenting more seriously. As one teacher put it:
"Children should be sent to school to be educated-not raised."
I recall a Sunday New York Times front page news analysis from the Fall of 1993 which noted that, in dealing with the crime problem, a far bigger factor that the availability of guns was the high rate of illegitimacy, and George Will wrote that the high rate of illegitimacy produced " a continually renewed cohort of unruly adolescent males."

[Vern Humphrey]

And of course, the rate of illegitimacy is driven by the Great Society, which made out-or-wedlock pregnancy economically attractive.