 Cover of the first edition | |
| Authors | Mike Huckabee George Grant |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Juvenile delinquency |
| Published | 1998 |
| Publication place | United States |
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| ISBN | 978-0805417944 |
Kids Who Kill: Confronting Our Culture of Violence is a 1998non-fiction book by formerArkansas GovernorMike Huckabee andEvangelical Christian author and pastorGeorge Grant.
The book is a response to theschool shootings carried out by teenagers, arguing that these tragedies are the result of a society in decline, and thatabortion,pornography,media violence,premarital sex,divorce,drug abuse andhomosexuality 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, includingMother Jones, reported that the book equatesenvironmentalism with pornography, homosexuality withnecrophilia, and nonbelievers with "evildoers".[1] During the 1998 Arkansas gubernatorial race,Democratic nomineeBill Bristow criticized Huckabee for making money off of the Jonesboro massacre.[4]
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