channel4.com/learning/microsites/G/gunsarecool/

I'm a bit late as it was shown this morning. It's well worth setting the recorder to catch some of these morning programmes, they should really be shown in the evenings.

I really liked the part where a girl from South London articulately called out to 50 Cent to basically fix up and stop negatively influencing kids. I think he's in the country at the moment as well but again, with the time it was shown nobody probably saw it.

It also featured the 'Don't Trigger' campaign (dont-trigger.com). I love what they've been doing.

Guns are cool?

Wrong.

Swords are cool.



But nobody ever talks about swords, that's why they're less crimes commited involving swords. They're alot easier to purchase too.



Sites like the one above are part of the problem. It's common knowledge that "alot" ofchildren between the ages of 6 and 16 rebel against "somethings" that they're taught, even later on in life, especially when it's being presented in that fashion.

Negative words, promotions, websitesabout guns and anti-gun campaignsdomuch more damage than the NRA ever could.. People just aren't aware enough to see that.

Remember it's cool to be bad as a kid sometimes, and when a bad child associates being bad, wicked, and cool, etc by having a gun then they'll probably get a gun, just to portray that image.

The people who give guns a negative image are actually the people who "LOUDLY" oppose having them, they're to blame too. It's not just the rappers.

Like I've said elsewhere the opposite effect is normally what is achieved with these campaigns.

If you still don't understand. here's an example.

The game Grand Theft Auto got so much negative press because of it's violent content that some parts of the media even talked about it being banned.

A few years on, now games like that are almost the most popular genre, they certainly sell alot. They're ten-a-penny basically. The negative press made it popular. And the press is still negatve about those sort of games, regardles of the fact it's they who help the game get into more homes. Go figure. It's hard to believe that they're ignorant about that.

But there doesn't appear to be enough adults who have let go of their childish antics. Should we just let the rot set in?

You're right about that.

The rot set in a long time ago. It's getting people to identify the rot withinthemselves which is the problem.

Beliefs and attitudes spread too, especially the bad ones.

I'm getting to the point where I feel I should just shut up! But then apathy rules doesn't it?

You'll find alot less problems in the worldwhen you think in terms of "I" instead of "us"

Not exactly apathy, but the fact is that the only struggle that can be won is the individual one in the here and now..ALL others will fail.

I found and still findtelling people how they should think a fruitless task regardless of what the subject is.

Call it apathy if you wish, I call it making myself the priority.