Talk:Cheryl Wheeler

Clarification Required
Could somebody who understands the issue please clean up this section:

"However, in several interviews she has indicated that if her song doesn't address that issue, but if we have decided that adults can have access to guns, then we should make sure that unsupervised children can't get access to them."

It doesn't parse - "that if her song doesn't address that issue" - she would know what her song addresses - "but if we have decided that adults can have access to guns" - that was decided a couple hundred years ago - "then we should make sure that unsupervised children can't get access to them." - does her song suggest a course of action, or is it just imploring parents to use common sense? I can't tell from the quote what issue she's addressing - it might be obvious if you've heard the song, but for the rest of us, is it more than, "gah! don't be stupid!"? Is the more succinct version of what she said, "We should make sure that unsupervised children don't have access to guns."? Thanks for clarifying. BillMcGonigle 00:25, 21 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I have updated the note to (hopefully) clarify the point of her song. Let me know if I still don't have it right. ;^)


 * For those who haven't heard the song, it consists of a series of lines starting with "Maybe its the ...", and finally ending up with the line "If it were up to me, I'd take away the guns." The song was written shortly after the Jonesboro shooting incident.  As often happens, all kinds of commentators were theorizing about why the shooting happened.  Cheryl's comment was that all those theories were about why the kids were angry, but the reason they were able to kill so many people was because they had access to high powered weapons. -- wrp103 (Bill Pringle)  (Talk) 13:17, 21 May 2007 (UTC)