Stupid parents should never have allowed their kids to turn on a tv, open a newspaper, look on Google News, watch CNN etc.

WTF is wrong with parents these days that they can’t get a message through to their kids when their are billions of dollars marketing contrary ideas to them 24/7.

Oh and lets not give the parents of at risk kids any slack either. Just because the kids are ‘at risk’ meaning they live in a very poor community, might come from broken homes or families etc that doesn’t mean that the parents aren’t 100% to blame even if they grew up in the same cycle themselves, its still the parents fault.

It couldn’t possibly be the fault of a predator that Michael Vick who wants to receive adoration so much that he would spend 6 years of his life and hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting dogs in front of people with the fewest defenses available.

Come on, you can do better than that! Its not the parents fault and you probably know that, but go ahead and puke up that tired defense all you like.

If anything Michael Vick is double guilty because he came from a broken home himself, he knew exactly the weaknesses of the kids, teens and young adults he was screwing over. He was acting more like a pimp in his criminal endeavor and definitely not like a Star. Should he have star status now, No. Then, No. Did he have it then, Yes. Does he have it now? Yes. Are local school principals helping him become a repeat offender?

I think they are and every single one of them should be ashamed.

There are going to be a lot of at risk kids that will wonder, what is so cool about dog fighting that a star quarter back would try it?

That might be reinforced by Vick’s drug use, some teens might think, well Vick took drugs, and when I dabbled with drugs I did get high, so maybe if I go to a dog fight or raise a puppy to be tough and strong and scare away some of the thugs in my neighborhood when I walk down the street, maybe if I prove how tough my dog is in a ring . . . maybe Vick was on to something, afterall things worked out pretty damned good for Vick in the end, so what if he went to jail for a couple years, I know lots of people that go to jail and they don’t get million dollar deals before nor after let alone a tv show too.

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just a hypothesis

I would agree that the statistic seems a little sensational and could very well be distorted by increased reporting, but at the same time, I do not see Michael Vick doing a whole lot to stop dog fighting, after all he sees his main job as trying to get his old tired body back in shape so he can play football, that doesn’t leave much time to go out there and try to stop an activity that he has been enticed into not just once for many years but twice for many years. He’s an addict. Addicts do not always make the best cases to stop doing the activity that they are addicted to, because they are still struggling to stop themselves every day.