It’s been a debate for several decades now. Do violent TV programs, movies, music—but particularly, violent video games have any link to teen violence or rebellion? Do these things have any link to the ever-increasing mass shootings we’re seeing in schools and other public venues across America today? Since the evidence and the studies seem to affirm this notion, could this be part of the reason why so much of our Christian nurturing, as parents, seems to have had a zero-sum impact on the habits, attitudes and behaviors of so many of our kids?
I asked a group of our SHA kids how many had armed guards in their schools. About 75%—80% of their hands went up. Several more knew a school near them where a shooting had happened; and, one student had a shooting take place in the very school she …