Kids Who Kill

by George Grant and Mike Huckabee

As parents, we used to feel secure in our children being safely watched over in our nation's schools. We drop them off in the morning, make sure they have their lunches and homework, kiss them good-bye, and happily go about our day- never even fathoming that we may never again see their smile, hear their giggle, feel their touch, tuck them in at night...But, tragically, the families of the five victims of the Jonesboro shooting now know that pain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080541794X
• ISBN13: 9780805417944
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: B&H Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Sadly necessary

I imagine this book is selling even more copies as these problems have increased in schools in the last couple of weeks, I think we had an incident almost every day the second week of October. The profiles of the violent incidents were very well written. Most you will have heard of, some of them probably not.

What Has Happened to Get Us To This Point?

Huckabee with Grant provide us with a fine delving into this issue which has so tugged at the hearts of Americans: our kids killing other kids.Many thought this very thing would happen (along with all the other cultural malice we have) given the cultural downturn did not right itself.Convincingly and winsomely, this book presents the road America has been on and is being urged on by the postmodernists, but one that is destroying the very foundations and fabric of our great country .... faith, family and work.They well document the contributors, and resolve that government and legislation are not the answer. Culture must gather itself around these three areas, faith, family and work.Fine expose on the topic. We can't expect or let the government do those things for which we individually and communally were created to attend to as stewards.

Some Concrete Steps to Halt the Growing Epidemic

This is a very quick read and presents a thorough overview of a disturbing problem. I finished it in less than 24 hours. Mike Huckabee was governor of Arkansas when the tragic schoolyard shooting took place in Joneboro. In the heat of such an unforeseeable horror, many voices offered soundbite explanations as to what could possibly have cause such nightmare-stretching pogrom. Unfortunately, as the governor wisely points out, many of these diversely-intended know-it-alls look at one aspect of the problem but fail to dig deeply enough to reach it true roots. The books detailed hypotheses will not sit well with those who wish to utilize such a tragedy to call for strict gun control regulations. The authors (Dr. George Grant collaborated with the governor) wisely explore the current splenetic forces at work throughout American culture from the breakdown of the family to Hollywood's repeated celebration of gratuitous violence. In one especially harrowing chapter the reader enters a perverse video game and sees just how much hate and violence is being peddled at American children.If the book has one drawback is that it may be that it will be confined to preaching to the choir. Tumescent with quotes and references to support every idea propounded, the authors rely almost exclusively on conservative voices from William Bennett to Alan Keyes to Michael Medved. Few open-minded people could serious question the knowledge of these sources, but their pandemic citings and the under-representation of liberal mover and shakers (and there a few who advocate such common sense values) may turn off those who ideology blinds them to the sapience of conservatives.It's definitely worth a read and will serve as a useful tool to parents who must contend with a culture that is assiduously fighting them at every turn.

A fresh look at a troubling problem

Finally someone who stops finger pointing and looks at the root of the problem. This book discusses the influence of the general down fall of the moral culture in america. A must read for anyone who works with kids today

Excellent book!

It is more than a sociel commentary pointing fingers at guns, bad legistlation, or any one thing. I could type forever about it, but I don't have forever. If you read it and like it, give it to a friend. If not, give it to a library. If you want an in yo face reality check-Here it is. btw, I would vote for Mike Huckabee for president