PPP

What to make of yet another killing spree by a male, this time in Omaha, Nebraska? Reveille has been sounded three times already this year, yet America still sleeps. PPP, proper, prior parenting where are you? Child-raising should be based not upon experience but upon judgment fed by solid character. The upbringing of children is a daily grind which apparently has worn out parents and care-givers. Distinctions between right and wrong, self-control and self-expression, achievement and disappointment have blurred. Solid character in a parent implies unselfish absence of ego and the presence of a concern for the moral future of children, not the power, prestige or protectionism that accompanies the job. Unfortunately, an undercurrent of shallowness and misplaced values flows in America. Advertisers sell enamel bracelets for exhorbitant prices, 4 million botox injections were financed and Barry Bonds was paid 60 million dollars over 2 years. So a 19 yr. old with no solid character or respect for human life lived and died without meaning. PPP could have implanted some meaning. Our culture could have encouraged him to feel life was worth living. A belief in the goodness of God and an awareness of the presence of temptations from the Devil could have gone a long way to prevent the tragic death of 9 people and the sufferings of 5 others (and numerous loved ones). Loss of a girlfriend, loss of job - could have been seen as opportunities opening new doors for the killer, but disappointments just opened the door of doom.