Does this outrage you? (Chicago, Lake Forest: crime, homes, neighborhoods)

[aragx6]

Originally Posted by lenniel

inability to act like an adult

Sounds like someone should heed their own words

[d-iron]

Originally Posted by Humboldt1

Leniel,

You may have gone overboard with your character assisination of the mothers of those involved in this tragedy. However, it still is a sad situation. Society as a whole needs to do a better job creating positive environments to prevent tragedies such as this from occurring.

Perhaps a more constructive topic for discussion would be how to prevent such shootings.

So you're blaming society on this tragedy?

[aragx6]

It's no less fair than blaming a mother you know absolutely nothing about.

[lenniel]

Originally Posted by aragx6

It's no less fair than blaming a mother you know absolutely nothing about.

What exactly do I need to know about a woman who has 8 children and lives in the projects?

Who are you trying to lay blame on? Where did society fail this person.

I have an idea, how about she take some personal responsibility, but then again, that's an unknown concept to liberals.

[UnderTheLiveOaks]

We need to put a bell on lenniel. I never can see him coming.

[Costa Rica Chica]

Originally Posted by lenniel

I have an idea, how about she take some personal responsibility, but then again, that's an unknown concept to liberals.

Oh, geez. Your op was offensive enough, but you managed to continue your negativity with a nice sweeping generalization about a whole political party. Way to go!

[PAKennedy]

Originally Posted by Costa Rica Chica

Oh, geez. Your op was offensive enough, but you managed to continue your negativity with a nice sweeping generalization about a whole political party. Way to go!

As dumb of a generalization as it was, being Liberal doesn't necessitate a political affiliation.

[Bette]

this DOES bother me b/c how far have we really come? Having children is a wonderful thing when the parents are responsible, caring and able to care and actually raise their children.

[eevee]

Originally Posted by lenniel

concerning the shooting last week at Crane high school: The mother of the shooter had 8 children and the victim's mother had 4. I'm going to assume that neither were married and the 12 total kids were fathered by 6 or more men.
8 children living in the projects and no doubt getting more and more welfare for every child.
What a crazy society we live in.

the part in bold is the ONLY thing that outrages me. i could care less about how many children people choose to have and I refuse to make the ASSumptions that these kids were fathered by multiple fathers, the mothers weren't married, or even that any/all these kids were born in the projects while the mothers were on welfare

I'm FAR more outraged that kids are killing other kids on school grounds for a dumb hat; I'm FAR more outraged that this school has as much security around it as some minimum security prisons; I'm FAR more outraged that kids are terrified of gang retaliation and so are skipping school; I'm FAR more outraged that almost 2 dozen students have been killed this year (this averages out to MORE than 1 a WEEK!); I'm FAR more OUTRAGED that, instead of providing helpful insight on how to keep this from happening again, idiots instead create dumb threads only to mount character attacks against disadvantaged people and make sweeping assumptions

[skyeINIL]

Originally Posted by CarolinaBredChicagoan

We need to put a bell on lenniel. I never can see him coming.

I can't put into words how hard I laughed at this.