Punishment renders positive results

I’m writing this editorial to say how sick I am of turning on Hardball with Chris Matthews and having to end up watching footage of some school that got shot up, and also I would like for social scientists to re-evaluate their views on mild corporal punishment.

I believe that kids that shoot up their schools and get caught should be publicly humiliated and given a slow and painful, nationally televised, public execution. Being dropped in the La Brea tar pits or being quartered comes to mind. This will change the mind of future wannabes. If the police arrive on the scene fast enough and confront these sickos they should shoot to kill instead of shoot to disable. When eating with mommy and daddy you see a picture of what used to be a kid's face and when you find out how he got that way it will probably make you not want to do what he did. Hallelujah!

Also, social scientists are to blame. Most of the kids that commit these crimes are between 13 and 18, when they were kids the social scientists said that corporal punishment would turn children into deranged lunatics. Well, they are deranged lunatics and they haven’t been spanked. Coincidence, I don’t think so. Punishing a kid by making him think about what he did gives him time to think about revenge, not about what he did. A reddened rear end makes him think of keeping it from being reddened again. To all of you people that don’t like what I say; wait until your kid ends up in a body bag.

I would like to end with two quotes, first from the NRA, then comedian Eddie Izzard, "Guns don’t kill people, people do — but they sure help." Be benevolent!

Brandon Viamonte
Junior, School of Consumer and Family Sciences

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