An Interesting E-Mail on Young, White Males
December 17, 2012

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RUSH: I got an e-mail note. I want to share this with you based on the last call that we had.

Dear Rush:

I have not watched a second of news on the school shooting over the weekend, mainly because seeing the reporting makes me cry and unable to do much else. But I'm tuned in enough to know that once again the American leftist culture is forcing us to collectively look at the wrong reasons for the problem, and as such, we will never be able to come to grips with it, much less find a solution. What do all of the public shootings in the last years have in common? They were all done by young white males who were from upper middle-class families. The problem is not guns. That's the easy shiny thing that the liberals flash in front of us so that we don't look at their failed political agenda.

The problem in America today is how we have treated white boys for the last decades, and it all has at its root the unrelenting liberal political agenda. Boys have been pushed out of two of the most important activities: school and sports. In an all-out effort to convince girls they can do anything a boy can, schools have ignored the natural needs and learning traits of boys and forced them to learn like girls. Fewer boys are going to college, in part because they're being pushed out by a feminist agenda in education. We have rushed to dilute the energetic aggressive aspects of the male species by drugging them as children and chickifying them at every turn.

We allowed our young boys to play violent murdering video games. These types of games are the same ones the military uses to train soldiers. But they are being played by very, very young kids in dark rooms all over the country. You want to ban something, ban those. We have overlooked the devastating effects on all children of not having a father in the house. And we have ignored and not helped boys with their mental illness. We've hyperventilated endlessly over girls and their eating disorders, image issues, self-esteem, sex, blah, blah, blah, but we have most totally ignored the mental challenges that boys face.

Interesting, don't you think? It's an e-mail from a female listener to the EIB Network.

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ABSOLUTELY INDEED.

All true, all true, I grew up playing with guns, toy ones and real ones, my dad gave me my first gun when I was nine. Lots od squirrel and rabbit gravey happened. I still own that gun, and more. Never shot up any schools. Have always loved fast women, fast cars and trucks and nice guns. Standard american male.

I've thought about this quite a bit since I first read it, and I kind of disagree with it. Let me first say that I am reading this from a Christian mother's perspective.

An AWARE set of parents can do a hell of a lot to shape and mold the mind and heart of their children. Yes, the schools and the culture are terrible.

But Christians have been shown the way.

John 17:14
I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.

We do have the power and the tools to raise our children the right way. It is not easy. It is a life-long commitment with many struggles.

But, blaming the schools or the culture and ignoring the role that a strong Christian father does have in the life of his child is absolute ignorance of Biblical principles.

We cannot throw up our hands and say, "All is lost!" We must fight harder for the souls of our children.