cant beleive what i just saw on the news

[jollyman069]

earlier we were talking about all the bad things you see in this age of 24 hour news..well i was flipping through the channels, and saw a CNN report where yesterday this 11 year old boy shot this pregant woman to death. I am not surewhere it happened but now he is in the county jail facing murder charges. What is happening to our society?? There is also the story of the boy who killed his father not sure how old he was but i do know he was younger then 15..It just totally blows my mind that these things are going on? I guess if you beleive in what the Bible teaches, the book of Revalition is coming true!!!

[jollyman069]

Jacqui these days acheiving that balance is a BIG trick thats for sure

[Jacqui805]

This is one of the very reasons I don't watch the news.  That doesn't make me ignorant either btw, lol, I just spend my time watching other things than that...anyway, I know alot of people think things are happening at a more alarming rate than ever before, but I would counter by just saying, that there are more people in the world today..in fact, every day.  I think that, for example and sake of the argument, let's say there are two crimes for every twenty people.  Now the populace has increased to sixty people.  The old-timers that were alive back when there were only twenty will see an increase in crime, but only superficially.  The rate of crime itself is not necessarily increasing, rather, the populace is.  Obviously, technology helps this, and I would even be willing to concede to you SLIGHTLY, lol, because of the increase in the populace, there are more people living together in cities and spaces, etc.  So sometimes, where a crime might have taken 10 lives previously, it may now take 40 because of more people there, ie a bomb on a bus or public square.  Either way, I think we're all horrified at all of the violence...it's a trick to manage your life in such a way as to be aware of it, yet also to not let it hinder your enjoyment of life...what a balance.

[jollyman069]

that is true jacqui they have been happening since Cain and Able...but it is happening in to days world more and more at an alarminmg rate.. you are also right the news media wont or dont report the good that man does for one another..this 24 hour news cycle of a world we live in they justr want to report the bad news for shck value i guess..we would be alot better off if they would report the good things that happen

[Jacqui805]

Jolly, respectfully, while the news stories you recounted are absolutely heinous, I would counter that these type of stories have been happening since the dawn of man.  A few searches through history prove it.  People will always do awful things to one another, but another always, is that they will always also do wonderful things for each other.  So much more good happens every single day, than do bad things regarding people.  Trouble is, the media doesn't report that stuff.  If you could see it, you'd be astounded at the good one man does for another.  It happens every single day.

[jollyman069]

your right about locking guns up...i was raised in western maryland which is up in the mounatins of matyland my dad hunted and taught me and my brothers to hunt...but his guns and when we got old enough our guns were under lock and key and till we got old enough we didnt touch them with out his supervision.

in todays world God only knows why an 11 yr old would do such a thing..maybe she told him to do something he didnt want too..but like one of ask about abuse so many times when something like this happens that is what has happened the child has benn abused

[margypops]

Thank you for answering my question, I hadnt seen that news its pretty grusome a child of that age would do that, if they keep guns in the house maybe they should use those Gun lock boxes,they must have left the gun laying around .