Editor:
I recently came across the following statement, by Spokane (Wash.) County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich regarding a fatal shooting in which a 15-year-old student opened fire at a local high school.
I believe it speaks to the truth of what’s going on in our society and is worthy of our consideration.
Here’s what Sheriff Knezovich had to say:
“When I was in high school, every one of those rigs in the parking lot had a gun in the gun rack.
“Why?
“We went hunting on the way home.
“None of those guns ever walked into a school. None of those guns ever shot anybody.
“What’s the difference? Did the gun change? Or did you, as a society, change?
“I’ll give you odds that it was you, as a society, because you started glorifying cultures of violence. You glorified the gang culture. You glorified games that actually gave you points for raping and killing people.
“The gun didn’t change. We changed.”
Janice Urben
Sweet Home