I woke up at 2:30 AM or so on Saturday morning with this song in my head.

I understand that there are some children that need to be on medication. But I also believe that there are a lot of kids that are drugged because the school system refuses to deal with them. The ones that are a little more energetic and harder to teach than the rest are sent to the doctor and they are all too willing to prescribe drugs to “fix” them.

And these drugs have side effects so more are prescribed to counter those.

And then more side effects.

So what happens when we take kids pumped up on speed (legal) and other mind altering drugs to fix the violent outbursts and put them in front of a television to watch people blowing up zombies, or just killing for fun? And top the evening off with a few hours of violent video games. And perhaps some cop-killing rap.

So when a youngster dresses like a Joker and shoots up a theater who is to blame? Or another kid on these drugs shoots up a New England elementary school?

Are the drugs a common thread?

You be the judge, but we need to talk about what we are doing to our kids and stop blaming guns, magazines, and other implements of destruction.

It’s not about the guns, it is about kids on legal drugs losing their minds and losing their connection with reality.

Here is the song and the video Broken Children.

The lyrics are below the video.

Broken Children

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Every morning, the same old rush.

Brush your teeth, comb your hair, inside we know, they don’t have a prayer.

In the evening, they’re all latchkey, instead of parents, they watch TV

Do your schoolwork before I get home, then go to bed, so I can drink alone.

 

Chorus:

Broken Children, on the Streets

Broken Children they never sleep

We pill them up, they don’t make a sound

Broken Children, they all fall down

 

Leave a light on, ‘cuz I get scared. Tell me a story like you still cared.

Check the closet, look under the bed, the monsters mostly live in their head.

We drug them up and tie them down, we wait in silence for their big meltdown

You try to sleep, it’ll all be clearer, but the one to blame is watching in the mirror

 

Chorus:

 

Violent games set the stage, with the pill cocktail that fuels the rage

Just what is real and what’s pretend it’s all the same in the end.

We seem surprised when they grab real guns, they kill our daughters and kill our sons

We blame the bullets, we blame the shells, but most of all we need to blame ourselves.

Chorus X2

About Tom White

Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog. Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.

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