As someone who has spent three decades advocating for children, I find it deeply troubling that his first instinct is to make younger children criminally liable rather than address the failures that allowed this tragedy to happen in the first place.
Three children are dead.
The question is not why a 10-year-old should be punished.
The question is why minors have access to firearms.
The question is why violence continues to find its way into our schools.
The question is why our education, mental health, social welfare, and law enforcement systems repeatedly fail children before a crime is ever committed.
Real leadership requires more than reacting to headlines.
It requires understanding the problem.
Lowering the age of criminal responsibility may generate applause. It may generate media attention. But there is little evidence that it addresses the root causes of youth violence.
Children who commit serious crimes must be held accountable. But accountability should not become a substitute for prevention.
A senator’s responsibility is not merely to propose the harshest response. It is to propose the most effective one.
I have worked with vulnerable children for most of my adult life. Many have been abused, neglected, abandoned, exploited, or exposed to violence long before they ever entered conflict with the law.
It is easy to appear tough on children.
It is much harder to confront the adult failures that create these tragedies.
Before Senator Padilla asks Congress to treat younger children as criminals, perhaps he should explain why government has failed to protect them as children in the first place.
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tawang tawa sila meme vice HAHAHAHAHAHA LARO KA RALPH
HURALPHDO IN MISS QnA
SENATE TO TAKE LEGAL ACTION VS MIKE DEFENSOR
Acting Senate President Win Gatchalian bares a plan to take legal action against former lawmaker Mike Defensor for allegedly meddling with the Senate's internal affairs. @tribunephl
Despite their mandate to attend in special session, these senators are still absent:
Cayetano, Alan Peter
Cayetano, Pilar “Pia”
Marcos, Imee
Marcoleta, Rodante
Padilla, Robin
Villar, Mark
Villar, Camille
Legarda, Loren
Go, Christopher “Bong”
Remember them and do not vote again.
Noong gabi raw na inaresto si Digong, kasama raw si Leila de Lima sa meeting doon sa Townhouse.
E sino ung kasama ko sa Bilyonaryo News? Na inienterview live 😭
Shet pati ako nagkaka crisis kung boss ko ba talaga ung kasama ko that night 😭😭😭
Erwin: May ibang naging Blue Ribbon diyan, ayaw naman mag imbestiga talaga...
Jessica: Sino yun?
Erwin: Si Pia Cayetano... nung panahon niya hindi naman siya nag-iimbestiga, walang naimbestigahan.
Boom! So true! Thanks Sen. Erwin Tulfo. I want the world to hear! Kasi baka ako lang nakahalata na when Pia was crowned as BRC chair nung 2023-2024... WALA SIYANG GINAWA! She's always at the gym and playing Padel. May media presscon pa nga siya sa Padel tournament sa Baler habang may Alice Guo hearing si Risa Hontiveros. Eh diba dapat sa Blue Ribbon yun?! Bat napunta sa Women and Children committee?! Minority pa si Risa nun ah.
Marina and Sassa on performative support from brands and performative allyship during pride month!
Call 'em out queens and louder for the people at the back 🗣️📢‼️