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 America's murder rate and gun violence seems to be an ongoing discussion that doesn't get resolution.  What is the truth? Just recently a UK reporter claimed America should be more like the UK and get rid of guns, implying stricter gun laws would curb violence. But UK has. huge knife killing problem.  Chicago’s strict gun laws did not stop that city’s murders average 10 per week, and they are known to have some of the strictest gun laws in the country.  South of our border is Mexico, where it is almost impossible for citizen to own a gun, but the drug cartels, similar to American gangs have plenty of illegal guns and similar to Chicago gangs kill at an alarming rate. CNN said, " The indisputable fact is that where there are more guns, there are more gun deaths."  But what CNN left out was the critical contextual facts.   The Gun Control Act of 1968 and the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (1993) created nationwide requirements that make it more difficult to obta

Exactly how important are fathers?   Ask teachers or coaches and they will be able to generalize some key differences with students and athletes from fatherless homes. Fathers that are involved and positive role models play a huge part in the behavior and motivation as well as motivations of a child. The Father's effect on Spirituality or Lack thereof Vitz is a psychologist who was an atheist himself until his late thirties. He began to wonder if psychology played a role in one’s belief in God. After all, secular psychologists have been saying that a belief in God is really nothing more than infantile wish fulfillment. Dr. Vitz wondered if the shoe was on the other foot. Could it be that atheists are engaged in unconscious wish fulfillment? After studying the lives of more than a dozen of the world’s most influential atheists, Dr. Vitz discovered that they all had one thing in common: defective relationships with their fathers. The relationship was defective because the father was