John Kerry: “today there was an article on the front page of the Washington Post. I thought the words captured in the caption really…”

“today there was an article on the front page of the Washington Post. I thought the words captured in the caption really summarize the situation that the Senate needs to stop and think about much more seriously as we come into the budget deliberations for this year. The title of the story is: ``A `Life in Chaos' Shaped Young Shooter.'' The description in the story talks about the life: Living in a place where drugs are rampant, where a gun is under a pillow, where parents are not paying attention. Literally, they define this as a life in chaos. I have come to the floor many times over the course of the last few years to talk to my colleagues about exactly that: the difference for children between a life in chaos and a life lived in order, in structure. The fact is, this child in Michigan, who saw fit to pick up a gun and shoot another student of the same age in their classroom, is tragically not an aberration in the context of life in America today. There are countless numbers of children living lives in chaos.”