Canadian Girl on a Stabbing spree at School

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/student-arrested-after-students-stabbed-at-canadian-school/2016/02/23/c7c559b0-daa1-11e5-8210-f0bd8de915f6_story.html

Hello, I know it has been awhile if there are any of you who may have read my blog before today. Hello to new readers!  I have not posted for awhile due to life circumstances.  I am going to begin posting again. I have been recovering from depression, which was triggered by routine change due to adjusting to life without school. Anyways, I just thought to give you a little information, which may have been too much. 

Today we are discussing school violence with the use of weapons.  School violence has been in the newspapers for years now ever since the Columbine Shooting. Yes, school violence is rare even for the United States and really rare from some other countries.  Side note, school violence is still rare in the United States because if it was common it would happen as much times as normal violent crime like assault and rape. 

Canadian girl went psycho with two kitchen knives and began slashing fellow students and individuals down the hallways at her school.  This girl was flat out running through the halls of her school and slashing people.  That must have been a terrible sight.  

However, you do not see the news sites making a really big deal about the incident.  I think the only way that they would make a big story about is if she was wielding a gun rather than knives.  They also just had another school incident in Canada where a shooting occurred last month killing four people. 

Once again this shows that people who want to harm others will find ways to harm people with whatever weapon they can find or the most convenient.  Honestly, I think the reason school violence has become a problem is due lack of discipline, lack of responsibility, and lack of family support. 

Many children are not being taught to take responsibility for their own actions.  They are being taught to blame the world for their actions, make excuses, and are expecting not be punished for their actions.  Furthermore, it is the parents and teachers responsibility to discipline children when needed and to teach them to take responsibility for their actions.  Lastly, parents also need to try harder to have themselves or other family members watch their children and to get their children help when they notice that their is abnormal behavior to reduce school violence. 

Guns are not the problems, but lack of socialization, responsibility, and discipline are the problems. 

  

Guns and EBT cards?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/05/09/democrat-lawmaker-blasts-bill-blocking-gun-purchases-with-ebt-cards/

A few days ago I read an article about Democrat Timothy Horrigan being upset about a Senate bill that would block the purchasing of guns, tobacco, alcohol, and lottery tickets with EBT cards.  

I will say this that I am for gun rights and what not, but I do not think that EBT cards should be used to purchase that.  These people who are receiving these benefits should use it for food and basic necessities.  The whole point of poor families receiving these benefits is so that they can survive and not starve to death.  

He says that it is violating their Second Amendment rights, but it is not. The reason it is not violating Second Amendment rights is that they can save up money to get the guns that they want.  Furthermore, yes we have the right to bear arms, but it does not mean that you should use the benefits to feed your children to purchase guns.  

In addition, you do not need guns, alcohol, lottery tickets and tobacco to survive therefore EBT cards should not be used.  Lastly, there are plenty of other weapon choices that are available like a knife. I kept a knife underneath my mattresses for a long time to protect myself just in case one of my moms ex-husbands returned to attempt to kill us.  

The basic argument is that why should my tax dollars be used to pay for someone else to buy weapons, alcohol, tobacco, lottery tickets when they need to use their benefits to feed their children?