Mik,
If your skin is that thin perhaps you should not participate in any of these threads!
Try growing up with a gay brother, I took a lot of beatings for him in Elemantry school, until the one where four guys had me cornered. Wrong thing to do, until a teacher could get there I had beat the living hell out of all four. Then their parents wanted me expelled because I was a bully. Once the teachers who had wittnesed the incident told the parents that their children wee being expelled or suspended for a week due to the fact that they were the aggressors and what they had been doing it was a different story.
One of those kids did not forgive me for standing up for myself unitl we were in High School, the other three are some of the closest friends that I have today.
High School was not that much of a picnic but with 8 elemantry schools feeding the high school my brother was lost in the shuffel and the crap subsided.
Do I harbor any ill feelings for any of these kids, NO! I do relish going to class reunions though to see how misrable some of thier lives are and how little they did with the good education that was provided in the Shenandoa Valley of Virgina School System where I was educated in my early years. And no I don’t rub it in, that would not be a proper thing to do, our Class Valadictorian drives a bread truck and may never be able to retire, he likes what he is doing and that is all that matters. One of the kids that was most at risk for droping out, is now the superintendat of Schools, somewhere in his last two years of High School he got his act together. He was in a worse situation that I, I can remember the day that he rode a motorcycle down one aisle and up another during an assembly in the school auditorium. All for attention!
Another kid that was kind of at risk is now a banker, and at one time was principal of an award winning state school for handicaped children, his dad drove a coal truck making home deliveries.
Its all in what you, yourself make of life. As Forest Gump says life is like a box of Chocolates, you never know what your going to get.
I am the father of an individual who has had some mental problems, he will tell you real quick that some of these individuals can bull shit a mental healt proffesional to no end. He agrees with Tom Cruise that these doctors are practicing a lot of Hookum, if the individual that they are working with does not want the help.
My son spent some time behind bars until he got a proper diagnoses and help, he then went back to school and earned both a degree and an electricians licence.
He is now in a good relationship with a lady who is 12 years younger that he is and she keeps him wore out. He can’t teach and is limited in jobs due to his escapades as a youth but he is a valued employee of the business that he works for and they send him all over the area to different stores due to his management abilities. At 38 he is happy and talking about going back to school again and studing engineering.
Life is what you make of it, and Cho was sick, and he could apparently work the mental health folks.
Myself I feel for his parents as they thought that they had this under control.
My anger is focused on the American Civil Liberties Union for the freeing of many of these individuals from the mental health hell holes that they were deposited in. INstead of working to make the conditions better they caused them to be put out on the streets with no treatment at all.
This is why many individuals are sleeping on heat grates in our cities and causing the problems that they do.
As a gun owner it also goes at the NRA for being so hungup on Rifles that have no value for hunting and on Hand guns that no one but a Law Enforcement Officer Should have. Then make the penalties for having one 10 Years no parole for the first offence and double them for each offence there after. I am one of those that dropped the NRA over 20 years ago for their stance. I am a combat veteran and these weapon have no value at all in the average individuals hands.
Radical? Hell yes but this country has gotten the rep of being violent and rightfully so.
