John Rosemond

About the author: John Rosemond is a North Carolina family psychologist and author of ten best-selling books on child rearing and family life, including John Rosemond's Six-Point Plan for Raising Happy, Healthy Children (what he refers to as "my manifesto"), A Family of Value, and Raising a Nonviolent Child, from which the following viewpoint was excerpted. His nationally syndicated parenting column appears in approximately two hundred newspapers across the United States, including the Miami Herald, the Charlotte Observer, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Lax gun control laws do not cause youth violence. Rather, it is society's inability to control children that is to blame. Youths have become more violent because schools and parents fail to discipline children and establish standards of behavior, both necessary to prevent children from committing violent acts. More gun...