Children need fathers, and they need to be a part of a community that will protect and care for them, writes KayleeDMcGhee. 'Too many children aren’t being raised in that kind of environment. We, as a society, are failing them.'
ragedies such as the horrific school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday have a habit of becoming political before the bodies have even been counted. But if there’s one thing everyone can and should agree on, it is that none of this is normal.
But there is no evidence that the sweeping gun control policies pushed by leftists, such as an outright ban on assault-style weapons, would have done anything to prevent the mass shootings that have taken place. Such policies aren’t even good at preventing common crime.
Why is it, for example, that 75% of the most recent school shooters, including the 18-year-old in Uvalde, were raised in broken homes without fathers? Indeed, this background is so common among perpetrators that criminologists Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschiafter the Sandy Hook school shooting that the absence of fathers is one of the “most powerful predictors of crimes.” Boys raised without a fatherly presence are more likely to act impulsively, irrationally, and, yes, violently.
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