more on teen violence

Yesterday, I started blogging about the kids in North Pole, Alaska who were going to shoot their classmates and teachers. There is also this case from last week in Columbus, Kansas and high school students doing the same thing to “celebrate” the 7th anniversary of Columbine.

My daughter, Kristina, and I did an extended podcast of this which you can access from the blog or I tunes link www.Christcast.net In it we talk about a variety of issues related to teenage violence, school shootings and such.

Two quick things you notice. In many of these school shootings or plots, it is smaller towns. So much for the violence of cities such as LA, where we live. It is especially ironic, since there has to be a lot of evidence pointing to something going on with the teens, as Columbus only has 3300 residents, and North Pole, Alaska, 1600. You can’t hide “strange-goings-on” in these settings. Indeed, at least in the Alaska case, a parent tipped off the police.

Another thing to notice is these school shootings or plots tend to be white kids. Gang activity in urban areas tends to be African American and Latino, but the teenage angst shooters are white? Violence is equal opportunity, I guess.