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Weapons Of Minor Destruction, Marc Baranowski
Weapons Of Minor Destruction, Marc Baranowski
Child Development and Family Relations Faculty Scholarship
The calculated rampage of two boys has left four classmates and a teacher dead and 11 others wounded at a middle school in Arkansas. It is a shocking, chilling disaster that begs for explanation. But there are no easy answers or quick solutions to violence as devastating as the murder of children by other children.
A wise sage once said, "When a society gets sick, teen-agers are the most likely to show the symptoms." American society suffers from a chronic disease not covered by most HMOs. I call this disease "LOV" -- Love Of Violence, and the Arkansas incident is …