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A-plus for parents who turn in potential bomber
By Mia Moody
| Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 10:29 AM
In an age when parents stand up for their children for everything from public intoxication to filming and airing a brawl, it is about time some practiced tough love.
Police arrested the South Carolina high school senior Monday after the ingredients to assemble a bomb were delivered to his parents’ home. I am sure the decision to turn him in was hard, but parents have to draw the line somewhere.
According to a CNN report, he hated “rich boys with good-looking girlfriends.” In addition, police say the boy’s journal revealed sympathies for the Columbine gunmen.
Parents must teach their children tolerance for other people and that there is a consequence for every action. This is a prime example of what happens when they do not learn this lesson early in life.
In addition, counseling, prayer and self analysis might solve some of the issues that drive troubled youth to kill.
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By Heather
April 23, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this
Living only a county away from the Chesterfield boy (I live in Lancaster, SC), I feel like my children are threatened now. There was an issue in York county, SC this morning - probably someone trying to imitate the sick-o kid from Chesterfield, SC. Clover High School was on a 3 hour delay and the schools buses were forbidden to go to the school.
I know that turning in your child must be tough, but those parents are heroes. They saved countless lives by turning in their son and preventing a terroristic attack. If they had not turned him in but just tried to stop him, he could have turned on them. He could have hurt r killed them. That child seems to have hatred in his bones. When I saw him on the news being carted away to a federal prison, he was smiling. I applaud his parents for doing the right thing. I don’t know if I would be brave enough.
By Mia
April 23, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this
I agree. That’s another issue I should have addressed—copy-cat cases. It seems that the memory of Columbine lives on forever.