guns and repressed rage and no help
Nicoletta Manns
I personally don't believe that gun laws are going to make much of a
difference, because guns are not really the problem: people/kids with
repressed rage are the problem that needs to be addressed. My nephew was
just recently taken away from his mom, my sister, because over the course of
a few years three or four times someone called Social Services on her,
saying the boy wasn't properly supervised for example when he was riding his
bike outside his house by himself at age five or six. Another time he was
dropped off after school an hour early and my sister didn't know that he
would be home early. That time the was taken by the police to foster home.
That was before Thanksgiving and she hasn't seen her son since. She has had
no support or couseling over this. Social Sevices have made no attempt at
reuniting her with her son - the focus has been completely on keeping them
apart. I wonder how my nephew is going to feel when he is a teenager when he
looks back on this episode of his life, having had no help. The neighbours,
instead of calling Social Services might have offered to help my sister look
after her son (she is a single working mom), but no who would have thought
of that!
Guns don't kill people, people kill people; rage kills people.
My ex is an engraver of guns, hunting rifles and such. He turns an ordinairy
gun into a piece of art so beautiful, the owners don't even want to shoot
with it any more, instead they just hang it over the fireplace to look at.
~Nicoletta
*********************************************************
"It is paradoxical, yet true: Children are the most in
need of loving attention when they act the least
deserving of it!"
by Aletha Solter, 1998
from the article "Why Children Misbehave"
www.awareparenting.com
*********************************************************
difference, because guns are not really the problem: people/kids with
repressed rage are the problem that needs to be addressed. My nephew was
just recently taken away from his mom, my sister, because over the course of
a few years three or four times someone called Social Services on her,
saying the boy wasn't properly supervised for example when he was riding his
bike outside his house by himself at age five or six. Another time he was
dropped off after school an hour early and my sister didn't know that he
would be home early. That time the was taken by the police to foster home.
That was before Thanksgiving and she hasn't seen her son since. She has had
no support or couseling over this. Social Sevices have made no attempt at
reuniting her with her son - the focus has been completely on keeping them
apart. I wonder how my nephew is going to feel when he is a teenager when he
looks back on this episode of his life, having had no help. The neighbours,
instead of calling Social Services might have offered to help my sister look
after her son (she is a single working mom), but no who would have thought
of that!
Guns don't kill people, people kill people; rage kills people.
My ex is an engraver of guns, hunting rifles and such. He turns an ordinairy
gun into a piece of art so beautiful, the owners don't even want to shoot
with it any more, instead they just hang it over the fireplace to look at.
~Nicoletta
*********************************************************
"It is paradoxical, yet true: Children are the most in
need of loving attention when they act the least
deserving of it!"
by Aletha Solter, 1998
from the article "Why Children Misbehave"
www.awareparenting.com
*********************************************************
[email protected]
In a message dated 2/6/01 8:40:49 AM Pacific Standard Time,
snmanns@... writes:
<< Guns don't kill people, people kill people; rage kills people. >>
Yes, but if people with rage can't get guns they can't kill with them. It
takes a lot more energy to kill some other. more physical way. -Amalia-
snmanns@... writes:
<< Guns don't kill people, people kill people; rage kills people. >>
Yes, but if people with rage can't get guns they can't kill with them. It
takes a lot more energy to kill some other. more physical way. -Amalia-
Bobbie
That is a VERY good point. I've said that alot before
too. I really liked my dad's pretty antique pistol,
and told him not to get rid of it. I just wish that
SOMEONE (parents mostly) would do something (like
working on that whole repressed anger thing)that would
keep guns out of hands of people who want them as an
outlet for thier anger. Does that make sense? I can't
really say that i believe a certain law or one certain
thing would do the trick, cuz it is too complicated
for that. Just like I don't think the whole abortion
issue is as simple as saying "pro-life" or
"pro-choice".
That is sooo sad about your sister. It nearly made me
cry. I am always so worried about things like that.
When i was little, my little sister (I think she was 3
or so) and me were jumping on our bed and she got it
in her head to jump OFF the windowsill and onto the
bed where she would sommersault. Well, she tumbled
right off he bed and hit the corner of her forehead
*SMACK* against the side of the door. She got a HUGE
purple egg sized bruise/bump and the next morning her
eyes were swollen shut. It was sooo awful looking. The
doctor said she was fine, it just looked much worse
than it was, and so we still played with our next door
neighbors and told them the whole story. But they
still felt the need to call social services on my mom,
even though we were almost never even spanked or
hardly ever even got in trouble. An officer came and
we were outside playing and I went up to him (who
knows why) and he asked me all these questions about
getting spankings and where we got them and if she hit
us in the face, etc. Then talked to my mom and she
explained and he left. whew.
Then there are kids that truly are neglected and
unwanted that nothing is ever done about to help.
I hope that things work out so that your sister can
have her son back.
-Bobbie
--- Nicoletta Manns <snmanns@...> wrote:
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices.
http://auctions.yahoo.com/
too. I really liked my dad's pretty antique pistol,
and told him not to get rid of it. I just wish that
SOMEONE (parents mostly) would do something (like
working on that whole repressed anger thing)that would
keep guns out of hands of people who want them as an
outlet for thier anger. Does that make sense? I can't
really say that i believe a certain law or one certain
thing would do the trick, cuz it is too complicated
for that. Just like I don't think the whole abortion
issue is as simple as saying "pro-life" or
"pro-choice".
That is sooo sad about your sister. It nearly made me
cry. I am always so worried about things like that.
When i was little, my little sister (I think she was 3
or so) and me were jumping on our bed and she got it
in her head to jump OFF the windowsill and onto the
bed where she would sommersault. Well, she tumbled
right off he bed and hit the corner of her forehead
*SMACK* against the side of the door. She got a HUGE
purple egg sized bruise/bump and the next morning her
eyes were swollen shut. It was sooo awful looking. The
doctor said she was fine, it just looked much worse
than it was, and so we still played with our next door
neighbors and told them the whole story. But they
still felt the need to call social services on my mom,
even though we were almost never even spanked or
hardly ever even got in trouble. An officer came and
we were outside playing and I went up to him (who
knows why) and he asked me all these questions about
getting spankings and where we got them and if she hit
us in the face, etc. Then talked to my mom and she
explained and he left. whew.
Then there are kids that truly are neglected and
unwanted that nothing is ever done about to help.
I hope that things work out so that your sister can
have her son back.
-Bobbie
--- Nicoletta Manns <snmanns@...> wrote:
> I personally don't believe that gun laws are going*********************************************************
> to make much of a
> difference, because guns are not really the problem:
> people/kids with
> repressed rage are the problem that needs to be
> addressed. My nephew was
> just recently taken away from his mom, my sister,
> because over the course of
> a few years three or four times someone called
> Social Services on her,
> saying the boy wasn't properly supervised for
> example when he was riding his
> bike outside his house by himself at age five or
> six. Another time he was
> dropped off after school an hour early and my sister
> didn't know that he
> would be home early. That time the was taken by the
> police to foster home.
> That was before Thanksgiving and she hasn't seen her
> son since. She has had
> no support or couseling over this. Social Sevices
> have made no attempt at
> reuniting her with her son - the focus has been
> completely on keeping them
> apart. I wonder how my nephew is going to feel when
> he is a teenager when he
> looks back on this episode of his life, having had
> no help. The neighbours,
> instead of calling Social Services might have
> offered to help my sister look
> after her son (she is a single working mom), but no
> who would have thought
> of that!
>
> Guns don't kill people, people kill people; rage
> kills people.
>
> My ex is an engraver of guns, hunting rifles and
> such. He turns an ordinairy
> gun into a piece of art so beautiful, the owners
> don't even want to shoot
> with it any more, instead they just hang it over the
> fireplace to look at.
>
> ~Nicoletta
>
> "It is paradoxical, yet true: Children are the most*********************************************************
> in
> need of loving attention when they act the least
> deserving of it!"
> by Aletha Solter, 1998
> from the article "Why Children Misbehave"
> www.awareparenting.com
>
>__________________________________________________
>
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices.
http://auctions.yahoo.com/