Kids Who Kill

"Kids Who Kill: Confronting Our Culture of Violence" (ISBN 978-0805417944) is a 1998 non-fiction book by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and Evangelical Christian author and pastor George A. Grant. The book is a response to the Jonesboro massacre, arguing that the tragedy was the result of a society in decline, and that abortion, pornography, media violence, premarital sex, divorce, drug abuse and homosexuality were the cause of the decline. [ [http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2007/12/huckabee-homosexuality-environmentalism-book.html Mike Huckabee: Playing Both Sides of the Pulpit] ]

Huckabee wrote this book even though he promised the families of the victims of the Jonesboro Massacre that no one would profit from the killing. Confronted by the husband of the teacher who was killed, he said, "I have to pay for my children's college somehow."

The book caused some controversy when, in December 2007, several news sources, including "Mother Jones", reported that the book equates environmentalism with pornography, homosexuality with necrophilia, and nonbelievers with "evildoers". [ [http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2007/12/huckabee-homosexuality-environmentalism-book.html Mike Huckabee: Playing Both Sides of the Pulpit] ] During the 1998 Arkansas gubernatorial race, Democratic nominee Bill Bristow criticized Huckabee for making money off of the Jonesboro massacre. [cite book |title=The Almanac of American Politics |last= Barone |first= Michael |authorlink= |coauthors= Grant Ujifusa |year= 1999 |publisher= National Journal |location= Washington, DC |isbn= 0-8129-3194-7 |pages= 137]

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