| Kids Who Kill: Confronting Our Culture of Violence | |
| Authors: | Mike Huckabee George Grant |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Juvenile delinquency |
| Published: | 1998 |
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| Isbn: | 978-0805417944 |
Kids Who Kill: Confronting Our Culture of Violence is a 1998 non-fiction book by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and Evangelical Christian author and pastor George Grant.
The book is a response to the school shootings carried out by teenagers, arguing that these tragedies are the result of a society in decline, and that abortion, pornography, media violence, premarital sex, divorce, drug abuse and homosexuality were among the causes of the decline.[1] [2]
Huckabee and Grant argue that the breakdown of the family structure leads to childhood crime, as well as to a high level of other immoral acts. They detail these themes in his outline of the book (pp. 4-5) as follows:[3]
The book caused some controversy when, in December 2007, several news sources, including Mother Jones, reported that the book equates environmentalism with pornography, homosexuality with necrophilia, and nonbelievers with "evildoers".[1] During the 1998 Arkansas gubernatorial race, Democratic nominee Bill Bristow criticized Huckabee for making money off of the Jonesboro massacre.[4]