During his first term, Obama made a plea for parents to do a better job of parenting. Little was made of his plea for some reason. He summed up the problem of how and why kids got into drugs, guns, and gangs. Few if any kids joining a gang have been reared right.

            A great example is thirteen-year-old Adam Toledo. What parent allows a boy that age to be around a twenty-one year old gangbanger at 2:30 in the morning? Gangs are full of kids and adults who were the product of bad parenting. Who is the final person to correct the misguided kid? The cop with a gun who may have to shoot him or her? Sending a kid to a penal institution just makes them more hardened since gangs run the jails and prisons.

            How about throwing Mr. Spock’s child reasoning ideas out and getting back to kicking butt when a kid goes wrong? Sitting a kid in a corner or taking away their computer, phone, or TV doesn’t change a pre-teen or teenager who spends their time selling drugs or committing other crimes.

            Don’t blame a cop when they are faced with a kid with a gun or knife. Blame the parents who failed in their job of raising the child. Don’t march to the mayor’s home or to the police station. March to the kid’s home.