by Don Feder

About the author: Don Feder is a syndicated conservative columnist for the Boston Herald. He has also written articles for the National Review, Human Events, and Reason.

Thinking about the three Norwegian children who killed a classmate, a question I was asked at the close of a college speech came to mind.

In the chilly cradle of social democracy, little Silje Marie Redergard, a 5-yearold girl, was kicked, stoned and left to freeze to death by three boys, ages 5 and 6. Norway’s prime minister blamed Silje’s death on “free market” violence, specifically those combative capitalists, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Terrible as it is, the Scandinavian tragedy is child’s play next to the everyday horrors enacted in America’s cities.

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