Dallas Police Arrest Two Adults In the Wake of Child’s Shotgun Death

Summary: An 8 year old was shot by an 11 year old with a shotgun he found. It turns out the 11 year old found the shotgun in a closet in his home.

The 11-year-old’s mother - Stacy Lee Maloney - is charged with making a firearm accessible to a child, a Class A misdemeanor.
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Yesterday, I posted a link to an article on children and the outdoors to my LiveJournal. Today, I will give some more thoughts on this. While I don’t have children, I have friends who do. I have some friends who have kids in Cub Scouts. What I here about Cub Scouts today makes my sad. The soul and the mystery of the outdoors experience has been ( Read more... )

Sweeping the Clouds Away

The first couple of seasons of Sesame Street have been released on DVD. They apparently are to rough for today’s toddlers. They have a warning on them. “These early ‘Sesame Street’ episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child.”

Some quotes from the article:

The show rolled, and ( Read more... )

For years, I have felt that the USA’s public education system is in decline. I compare what was required of high school graduates from 100, 50, 20, and 13 years ago, and I despair. Now, Ted Nugent provides us with another symptom and a possible cause:

What we discovered on one such meeting at a Michigan grade school was rather eye-opening, to say ( Read more... )