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This has been David's home for the last 25years. I have known David since he was 15 years old. I had a lot of interaction with David. One was to council him about a girl he was possessive over.
David is in Prison for attempted murder. His sentence would have been lighter under certain circumstances.
David's girl friend broke up with him and that didn't set well with him. She had a new boy friend. David planned on paper a detailed plan to kill her. At night when she was at home with a boy friend, David had snuck into her closet in her bedroom. The girl and her boy friend had no idea he was there. After the boy friend left David attacked her with an ice pick. He came close to killing her. He then left her home and cut his wrists, lying in a nearby field.
David attempted this with the girls two younger brothers in nearby basement bedrooms. He damaged her wrists for life, leaving her unable to play her instrument ever again.
The next morning, after being made aware of the attack, I called a friend doctor on call at the hospital. He went to her and called me back. "She may not live Larry" the attack was brutal.
David went from a clean cut young boy with a lot of hopes and potential to this killer to be.
What happened?
David explained it when he went for sentencing, hoping the judge would understand and be benevolent. She wasn't. David's words were something like this (I was on the front row in the trial room) "Judge, I was born into a good family. They brought me up to do what was right. I just got into the wrong things; first it was the wrong types of friends, they introduced me to games that were fun and attractive - dragons and dungeons, harmless games. They got me into sex and drugs. They convinced me that my righteous parents were all wet, weird, out of touch. Little by little I was dragged into the dark side of things. I went from being the good teenager my parents tried to help me become, eventually a good young man, into this monster."
David was sentenced to 38 years with the possibility of a very few years off for good behavior. Washington State has minimum sentencing laws.
I visited David in the County Jail every Sunday for over a year while he was waiting trial. He was in solitary for most of the time. I noticed and mentioned to others that watching David over those weeks I saw him look less and less like a dark spirit each visit.
The influences on David were less in prison than when he was a free person.
I understand that he has been a model prisoner. That he made a commitment to do something good with his life, even if in prison for the full term. He was born and raised with a religious foundation and apparently has used that to fulfill some means of positive outcomes with the circumstances he put himself in.
I have heard a lot of talk about guns these last few days. I posted an article about lets outlaw knives. It seems to me the problem isn't that simple. David's parents tried to raise an decent boy. He took control of his environment and in a few years became a dark and scary guy.
How can the evil I saw in David be stopped? Legislation? How?
What make David what he was, wasn't the ice pick. So what then?
Perhaps it was how cool were the dark things; the games. the dark stuff: the drugs, the sex, the violence. Perhaps we are paying the societal price for decades of removing God from the accepted political conversation, from our schools, from public places.
I heard Michael Medved quote a survey that showed Obama lost in many categories, but that the category he won, like 90 to 10%, which Medved says what was the deciding factor in the election was in the category of Non's. Like non believers. Non Jewish, non Christian, the opposite.
Are we willing to outlaw the non's? Seriously, how about embracing what our country was founded on, God and a Country founded on Man's God Given Rights. This is a country built on individual freedoms, including the right to be a non.
However, are the non's, which likely includes the providers of the "Dark Side" taking over, influencing to much, are they part of Satan's team the adversary: he the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
I am sure I am more correct on the problem than those shouting out "Gun Control".
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