Archive Entry #84: April 2, 1998

When I wrote this column seventeen years ago, I think school shootings and other senseless violence weren’t quite as anticipated by use Americans as they are today; I think we were probably more surprised then than we are now. Sad, isn’t it.

To my gladness and satisfaction, one outcome of this Archive for me has been that I have discovered a longitudinal consistency to my points of view – I feel the same way about these issues today as I did then. That’s not always a good thing, of course, but when moral decay and gun violence are the foci, I hope it is.

COMING NEXT: We travel back to the 1980's for an April ‘89 column I wrote after observing and identifying with a kid acting very much the wallflower at a regional youth event. Find it HERE.