In Portland, Oregon, two little boys, seven years old and eleven years old, pulled a gun on a woman in a church parking lot and threatened her, demanding her truck. Luckily, they didn't shoot her when she failed to take them seriously and refused. My first thought was, "where were the parents?', but ya know....it really takes a village to raise a child, and all of our children have been surrounded for years by advertising, glorified and fake notions of sexual attraction, entertainment that makes violence look like fun, and employers who limit the amount of time a parent can spend with a child. Seven and eleven are too young to demonize as criminals. Something about all of us has got to change.
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