It’s not any gun nor is it any law, or lack there of. It’s America, and how much she has changed.
Back in the late sixties as I became old enough to hunt on my own, I was fortunate to live near several remaining farms in my Town. Equally fortunate that the fields there were well stocked with pheasants come October. Most of my group were 18/19 year olds who liked hunting birds. The fields were all within walking distance from our neighborhood, so walk we did, with our shotguns on our shoulders. I carried my 1968 Wingmaster 12 ga with me. Still have her today although the scars picked up along the way now betray her age. As we walked we certainly drew attention. Friendly attention. “Have fun”, “good luck”, “hey, if you have an extra bird or two I would be pleased to have one” were the normal conversations along the route. It was a time I still remember fondly.
So some 40 years later I would ask you, how far would those teenagers, walking down a public way, with shotguns on their shoulders, make it today?
Not very far I would say. Within minutes 911 would be called, every Cop in the area would converge on us with guns drawn, and it wouldn’t be a stretch to say it would be highly likely we would be shot dead within minutes, if not seconds, of the Cops arrival.
How in hell did it come to this, to the blatant disregard for human life, the killing, the murders, the collapse of a moral structure?
Many factors is an easy answer. But I do believe there are two common denominators. The acceptance of violence in our lives, through media, through TV, through video games, through movies and the like. A desensitization to the brain accepting this as acceptable behavior. The second being the lack of treatment or realization that mental illness sometimes means the mentally ill can’t live among every day folks and need to be institutionalized.
How have these two common denominators push their way to the fore front? Liberals, Liberalism, Socialists, Progressives or whatever you want to call them.
Violence in America and Liberals are joined at the hip. A pox upon our Nation, a curse that is slowly but surely eating away at the fiber of morality, decency and all that was once the back bone of America.
It’s stopping the insidious creeping of Liberalism into America that is now the most important job for those of us who understand the immense job at hand. We can’t fail.
When I see the likes of Elizabeth Warren spewing her hate with that wretched scowl my blood boils. But at the same time I gather my thoughts and realize that stopping her, and all who think like her, is not going to be easy, they are firmly entrenched. But somehow, someway, she and her ilk must be stopped. Failing this our Nation will cease to exist. Yes the land mass will remain, but what America was will be gone forever.
My heart goes out to all of those who perished yesterday.
