I have a perfect answer for the children protesting gun rights. After checking several sources, it seems there is an average of 11 teenagers killed each day by other teenagers texting or talking and driving. Taking these children’s logic to a relatively logical step forward, we just take away all cell phones and their cars! Phones and cars are killers and these children should not be allowed to apply for the use of one until they’re at a responsible age. There are far more deaths by phone than guns any day of the year.
Let’s take this one more logical step. Eleven deaths a day doesn’t include the number of suicides every year caused by shaming and bullying, much of it texted or messaged on these over-entitled children’s phones. Given that, it makes sense to take phones away until they’re old enough to respect the power in their hands.
Kids might actually have to interact with those around them face-to-face. Without phones, they’d have time for homework, sports, and time with their families. Compare that to what I see every day – kids from grade school through high school walking to and from the bus with shoulders slumped, staring down at their phones as they text ignoring the world and even those around them, not to mention the vehicles swerving to avoid them as they cluelessly wander down the middle of the street in a chatroom fog.
Helicopter parents worried about where their children are don’t need to give them phones. A simple GPS tracker will suffice to locate them at school and around the neighborhood if you feel the need, or even better – old-fashioned parenting and trust when deserved. Yes, you read correctly. When. Deserved. Not because they whine, cry and throw tantrums – when. deserved. period.
Let’s get these instruments of destruction out of our children’s hands!
Just sayin…
I like this post. It makes a lot of sense. I was bothered by the lack of logic that is going on with the treatment of these kids (really it only emotion, but what else is new?) that are thought to have the wisdom of the wise sage on the mountain top, a brilliance of decades beyond their years and at least a couple of decades before they could be expected to lead the nation at all. As my father would say, “You have to be able to take orders before you can give them.”
I have seen a ton of silliness and a mind field of mindless articles from so many different places. I hear many of these authors don’t have any degrees at all in journalism, which might explain their poorly researched pieces, not to mention articles from places like of the mighty New York Times, so I thought to write some articles myself to add to my website (web design is also something I am working on). Writing articles is something new for me. In the past I have written many poems and story stories. I use twitter, but don’t usually leave comments on message boards, yet in quoting myself I would say that when speaking to the committed there will always someone else listening and I was listening.
I will add this post and your site to my website, but I have been building my site for some time and it is quite huge. This post I will add to my “Archive” and your site to my “Blog” page. I am always adding new and interesting things to my site to increase the traffic and make it a better resource for myself.
I wrote an article on this topic about a week ago. It can found here:
http://maxskyfan.com/pages/blogs/Articles/FakeOrReal.html