re: Multiple victims shot at Riverchase Galleria

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Poor people shouldn't have kids if they can't afford them. Colorado has been succesful in decreasing unwanted births through birth control and education.

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This is a tone deaf and harsh point of view

Many of our players come from poverty.. should they have not been born just so you could feel better?

Children shouldn't be the ones having kids.

All you can do is work to make society better the best way you know how, get involved where you can. There are no 100% solutions. Hopefully their family would do it but maybe a kid you work with one day decides to never point a gun at someone else if not in self defense because of your influence. Hopefully we will work to get weapons off the streets and protect children.

The “no 100% solutions“ statement is more important than you may realize. Our founders knew that we could not have a utopia- that there will always be avaricious men - thus we would have to put the best systems in place to check wrong doing as well as to use man’s Fallen nature as a check to one another, eg, free-market capitalism.

If men were angels, we wouldn’t need government. There is not and cannot be a perfect government this side of heaven. Therefore, people need to cease and desist with the griping that something is not perfect. Something can be imperfect and still be the best.

Good chatting with you and Cal.

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Therefore, people need to cease and desist with the griping that something is not perfect. Something can be imperfect and still be the best.

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Throughout my life experience I find people typically only ask for improvement or progress and get this response a lot. Good chatting with you too.

3 shootings in the last couple years at the Galleria, with an 8 year old losing his life on Friday.
Probably need security at all entries to the mall, checking, making sure no scumbag coming in with a deadly weapon.

Or supporting law and order.

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The solution to the problem cannot be solved with programs, etc as much as the fix happens with the family Parents must teach their kids right from wrong, quit playing the victim, and quite blaming others. It won’t be solved overnight, but I can assure you it will help in the long run

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Yep, there are good and bad in all races and it will ONLY get fixed one family at a time . Not sure that is practical in today’s climate , but it is the only way to stop this

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Yep, there are good and bad in all races and it will ONLY get fixed one family at a time . Not sure that is practical in today’s climate , but it is the only way to stop this

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What do we do with children with little or no family structure? With absent or bad parents and poor education. How do we help them? How do we prevent them from doing the same thing?

The programs that I have been in and a part of have worked and changed lives and gotten kids off the street. It is not the solution, programs can't save every child but that doesn't mean they don't work. Any child you help means you can possibly change an entire family tree and then hopefully it spreads. I agree we need family, responsible parents wanting to do the right thing but that alone is not a solution either. If this is the response then we will need to give up because nothing will work, we are done the cycle will forever perpetuate. I will not because I am the product of and have seen positive results when the resources are offered. You can learn values many places, it is best at home but you can get values in school, church, programs, sports etc.