Too Good To Be True?

Too Good To Be True?

If someone sent me an email making this claim, I would say, "Really? That's too good to be true." But I found it in something by Dr. John Lott, with a link to this June 29, 1999 New York Times article:

The father of one of the boys was asked some years ago to jot down his life's goals in the memory book for his 20th high school reunion. His answer was succinct, straightforward, and, it seemed, not unrealistically ambitious: ''Raise two good sons.''
The other father prided himself on being his son's soul mate. They had just spent five days visiting the Arizona campus where the teenager planned to enroll in the fall, and recently discussed their shared opposition to a bill in the state legislature that would have made it easier to carry concealed weapons.
So, on April 20, when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold stormed into Columbine High School in this Denver suburb and killed 12 classmates and a teacher, then themselves, these men and their wives suffered more than the loss of a child. The boys' bombs and bullets shattered their parents' very view of the world, undermining what had seemed to them and others to be 18 years of responsible child-rearing. [emphasis added]

I really feel for the parents of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. From what I have read, both parents had done their best to raise their kids well, by liberal definitions of such. Both are devastated not just but the loss of their sons, but that their sons died committing an infamous crime. But you do have to wonder how much of this monstrous end was something of an act of rebellion against growing up in gun control advocacy homes.

There's a bumper sticker that says, "Dictators preferred unarmed peasants." Mass murderers, it seems, also prefer unarmed victims.