Kids Who Kill: Confronting Our Culture of Violence (ISBN 978-0805417944) is a 1998 non-fiction

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 book by former Arkansas

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 Governor Mike Huckabee

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Michael "Mike" Dale Huckabee is an American politician who served as the 44th Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He was a candidate in the 2008 United States Republican presidential primaries, finishing second in delegate count and third in both popular vote and number of states won . He won...

 and Evangelical Christian author and pastor George Grant

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The book is a response to the Jonesboro massacre, arguing that the tragedy was the result of a society in decline, and that abortion

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, pornography

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, media violence, premarital sex

Premarital sex

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, divorce

Divorce

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, drug abuse

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 and homosexuality

Homosexuality

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 were the cause of the decline. And kids at a very young age who kill.

The book caused some controversy when, in December 2007, several news sources, including Mother Jones

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, reported that the book equates environmentalism

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 with pornography, homosexuality with necrophilia

Necrophilia

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, and nonbelievers with "evildoers". During the 1998 Arkansas gubernatorial race, Democratic nominee Bill Bristow criticized Huckabee for making money off of the Jonesboro massacre.