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Letter: Taking responsibility for our actions

Editor, Gazette-Journal:

Freedom of speech, is it a right without responsibility? Many people will give theories concerning recent events in Connecticut and similar events around the country, but none will unfortunately fix this problem. Our children and grandchildren face a much different threat than we did as children in the ’50s and ’60s, a country that is so divided and self-absorbed no one is looking at the big picture.

Television was simple as a child, mostly family entertainment, and what violence there was seldom if ever was graphic. The news was limited to the local paper, magazines and the nightly news all informed you in maybe one hour a day. Kids played cowboys or combat, generating most of the action with their mouths and imaginations. Crime existed—true enough—but most folks will tell you punishment was the goal, not economics. Mental health seemed different also; dealing with far fewer environmental factors is my amateur guess.

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