The series of front-page stories in the past year on the brutal and violent murders of our children raises some vary serious questions. The first is: Why have our children become Public Enemy No. 1 in the home?
With the continuity of this horrendous assault on our children reaching an incredible total of 55 since the first of the year, will we continue to say: “How terrible! What a pity!” Then we do nothing to attempt to stop it? What have our children done to merit this brutality?
With a constitutional guarantee of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, why haven’t these young lives been given the protection under the law which is their birthright? Where is their defense?
Can we look into our mirrors and ask: What kind of a person are you for tolerating this violation of our rights as American citizens, or has our human nature reached the stage of dehumanization which makes a defense of human life objective and verbal rather than subjective and sincere? Where is the public outcry of indignation and wrath against this defiance of the “sacredness of human life” as a public responsibility?
