by Jack
Full automatic sub-machine guns were once legal to own… until at the height of prohibition mobsters were using them against law enforcement. Then we passed a law banning said ownership… and suddenly all the mobsters turned in their machine guns and life was fine again – NO THEY DIDN’T AND NO IT WASN’T!!! It took lethal resistance, it took good guys with guns killing bad guys with guns. I digress, but the funny thing about freedom is, its always taken greater force to preserve it from those who would use force to take it. Thomas Jefferson said, “The tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots alike.”
But, back to my original thought, passing a gun ban back then didn’t work and it’s a fantasy to do that today, except instead of machine guns we are talking about a few types of semi-automatic rifles, because they look mean. Will we ever learn from our mistakes?
It troubles me to know that at the time the machine gun was legal in America and we had ownership of other highly lethal things like the Browning automatic rifle (B.A.R.) and semi-auto pistols and high powered rifles, we STILL had no school shootings – NONE!!! And we had no postal killings and no McDonald’s shootings and no college classroom shootings.. what’s so different about the people then and the people now?
Why are our teens using guns to kill classmates? Why are young adults targeting school kids? What’s wrong with our culture today that did not exist before?
Could it be the influence from Hollywood, where they are constantly trying to out-do the last sick, gory movie of mayhem and sadistic acts?
Is it our insatiable appetite for drugs and a love of experimenting with drugs?
Why is it important for some teens want to dress down with baggie pants and emulate men in prison? Why does porn get more hits on the internet by a factor of 10,000 to 1 than over free online classes to better ourselves?
What has happened that causes a majority of Americans to constantly turn to the government and let somebody else deal with the (insert problem) than do it ourselves?
These questions are hard to answer because they are so uncomfortable, but I think we all know the truth deep down. These things are symptoms of a sick, sick, sick, society. Fifty years ago it would have been unacceptable if parents allowed their kids dress all in black like zombies, wearing nose rings and spiked green hair. They would have been outcasts. Parents of such teens would have said, you’re unemployable and you’re going to starve if you keep that up and probably a lot more was said that went along with a good swift kick to the butt.
Today, anything goes, the tattoo phase is rampant, we see young girls with more tattoos than sailor and they dress like whores. What’s the message here, what is in their heads? Whatever it is it can’t be healthy.
It’s a sick society that berates Christians and others fools because they want to protect the un-born. Our values are never more clearly defined than when we stand up to protect the helpless among us and the unborn babies are our most defenseless.
All these things and a lot more says we are a culture in meltdown.
I never thought I would live to see the day when we’ve got states passing the irresponsible legalization of marijuana. 60 years ago only a scumbag smoked pot, now look around, it’s everywhere, even the President grow up smoking dope. The drugs, the porn, those unsupervised latch key kids, their worthless parents, the generations of welfare bums, the takers from society, the wealth redistribution leftists and radical bomb tossers and rioters, these are all symptoms of immorality running rampant, its a sign of a degrading society. And guess what? At the core of all this is our collective character…and that collective character ain’t much anymore. We’ve chipped away at every value we’ve ever held dear and crossed nearly every line that shouldn’t be crossed and all we can think about is blaming the rich or banning assault weapons?
Let’s face it, we’ve become like pets of the government, with all the rights and privileges therein. We’re a weak, degenerate, dependent, violent, scared, and depressed people with no boundaries, staring into a dark vision of our future. Is it any wonder that mental illness is pervasive in this society?
Thanks to that never battle for the hearts of minds of our children by a determine left in academia and government, we’ve finally come around full circle to embrace communism-lite (socialism) and all the problems that go with it. We’re past that deadly tipping point where the whole failure to deal with the mounting debt is ready to take us over the financial cliff. Now you tell me…IS IT ANY FREAKING WONDER THAT WE ARE PRODUCING MONSTERS WHO ARE SO SICK THEY WOULD SLAUGHTER INNOCENT LITTLE CHILDREN? AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM AND PRIDE IS DEAD, REPLACED BY DISPARE, GREED, DECLINE, AND A DOPE SMOKING PRESIDENT NAMED BARACK HUSEIN OBAMA.
OUR LEADERS IN GOVERNMENT ARE TOO AFRAID TO TELL US THE TRUTH BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN PART OF THIS PROBLEM FOR YEARS. THEY FEAR WE CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH. AIN’T THAT A BITCH?
But, the scary part is our government is a reflection of us as a society, SO THINK ABOUT THAT THE NEXT TIME YOU HEAR SOMEBODY SAY THEY HATE THE GOVERNMENT BECAUSE IT’S FAT, LAZY, INEPT, SPINELESS, STUPID, CORRUPT, AND GENERALLY UNTRUSTWORTHY.
I don’t know about you, but I’m hoping we will plunge over that financial cliff!!! Might as well do it now and get it over with. I would rather deal with it today than later when it will be so much worse for our children and grandchildren. Let it implode…then lets rebuild it the right way and may heaven help those who get in our way…cause we won’t.
( The revolution is near, very near)
FOX reports that NRA membership increased by 8,000 a day after the murders in Connecticut.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/12/19/nra-sees-surge-in-membership-after-connecticut-school-shooting/
Democrats in full never let a crisis go to waste mode call for more gun control but ll around America people are talking about mental health.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2012/1220/Sandy-Hook-Mental-health-not-gun-control-is-the-answer-to-mass-shootings
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/21/gun-mentally-ill_n_2346162.html
But Jack you’ve taken it a step further and stated the OBVIOUS…it’s worth highlighting and repeating again and again:
I can only add one other thought. As we have become more and more decadent and violent as a society we have also become more self-serving and narcissistic while pretending to be communal and tolerant. The outrage over this shooting is in a way quite phony because the principles that would create a safer, more healthy environment for children has been discarded as irrelevant or ridiculous. Frankly, I’m up to my eyeballs with the faux sophistication and superiority of modern social thought.
Well said my friend!
60 years ago you still wanted to own a slave,and america was way more violent with the thomson machine gun,with half,Half thats 1/2 the population,when you think ther is only one religion in this world your crazy, and most Christians really believe that .Guns are made for killing thats the soul purpose of a gun,OH and you probably need a 30 round clip to take that buck down.60 years ago they would drill a hole in your head to solve mental health issues,unless you where rich.