The kids who demonstrated today, stung to the quick by continued school shooting insanity, are right to be royally P.O'd at the decision makers at both the state and federal levels. They could, both long since and tomorrow, have been and be completely protected from this depraved but very real threat had or should those with the power to do so have placed or place sufficient numbers of gun armed guards in every school. They are available; every town has armed police, every state has National Guard, every locality in the real America has adequate numbers of mature, willing, knowledgeable armed citizens ready to protect the children. Lets face it, civilized humanity has often been compelled to face unanticipated hellish and depraved threats like the Vikings, the Mongols, Hitler, Stalin and ISIS. This is nothing new; lets just face up to it. Its a product of the "anything goes" '60's, just as the Vikings were products of Scandinavian fiords. Consider accounts of poor old British PM Chamberlain in 1938 lamenting, with words to this effect : "why how unthinkable it is that we should consider digging trenches and donning gas masks". That he shrank from the reality of the threat made it all that much more costly when the inevitable reckoning with fundamental evil came. How many more kids have to die before we do what is obvious and necessary and doable - protect them physically, right now, at the point of attack? The long term solution is a moral revival in America but that will necessitate the embrace of traditional values and that is anathema to so many in the leftist gun ban crowd.
The majority of the kids, at least those presented as such by the dishonest mainstream media, sincerely believe that stricter gun control will protect them against these attacks. They are young and understandably impressionable and have been led to believe this by regrettably influential , assertive and commonly encountered leftist teachers and administrators in the high schools and the same in their early undergraduate years. Some of those teachers, counselors and profs are of good will but this significant expression today of sentiment, opinion and intent was clearly very well organized. And that bespeaks far reaching preparation. And that shows the guidance of the vastly experienced professional American far left.
Its motivation is most assuredly not the safety of our children. How could it be? These are people who, in pursuit of "principles" they know to be destructive of societies would blithely have aborted today's youthful demonstrators while they squirmed in unseen and inarticulate fetushood some 17 to 21 years ago. Face it kids: those who send you into the political trenches today, would have scalded or dismembered you had it been convenient for them 17 - 18 - 19- 20 - 21years ago before you had had any chance to enjoy the lives you march for today They would have done it, had you been their offspring, if they pleased and they would have done parades celebrating their "right" to do so. They are using you for their overriding purpose of destroying our country by defeating the conservative movement which has unforgiveably thwarted them. They know that gun owners and their organizations are an essential conservative bulwark against dictatorship, both politically and, if it comes to it, by force of arms.
The NRA enjoys the special and ferocious condemnation of those who would severely restrict gun ownership, for its insolent and unrelenting defense of gun owner's rights. No wonder! Its perhaps the most powerful political lobby in America; its National School Shield program, which has been in place since 2012, advocates and offers expert advice on the pragmatic transformation of schools into hardened and unassailable refuges. If you haven't heard of this its no surprise; the mainstream media does not want you to know about it anymore than it wants to report the numerous incidents of guns, in the hands of the lawful, saving lives. NRA does report this.
Believe what you will about the root causes of school shootings; mitigation will be a long time coming. I believe its cause to be a moral chasm recklessly and naively opened by my generation (born 1945-50). That can't be remedied overnight but armed guards can be stationed right now! And that, young activists, is what I hope you will strive for with your justified anger. Jack
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Making schools into hardened targets is certainly not a bad idea (although one has to be realistic about the costs and unintended side effects), but I believe the best way to protect America's youngsters from shooters like Nikolas Cruz is simply to enforce the law. Cruz would have been hamstrung in his efforts to obtain firearms even if he had been arrested ONCE, and he gave police and school administrators ample reason to do so. It was Obama admin policies to shield teenagers from arrest and prosecution, and to mainstream them in our schools, so as to fight "racism" and low self-esteem, that produced the Parkland catastrophe, at least more than any other (controllable) factor. America's kids ought to outraged about THAT -- but it's unlikely most of them are even aware of the Obama era policy. For shame, media!
Dr. Waddy: The repeal of Obama's disingenuous efforts to shield young criminals from the adult consequences of their adult actions must, I agree, be part of a long term plan to defeat this depraved syndrome. I believe that as devoted Marxists, Obama and Holder promulgated these policies because they knew they were preposterous and that they would promote the kind of irreconcilable societal contradictions that Marxists strive for in their effort to destroy liberal democracies. In my opinion, it is the comprehensive and appalling damage done to our culture by insouciant baby boomer rejection of proven traditional sanctions which frees the mind of potential mass murderers of guilt and,most importantly, the abject fear of God's wrath for acting out their monstrous fantasies. To use "modernspeak" "hey, its my thing and I'm gonna do it, I don't give a rat's ass what anybody thinks". In my career in working in state prisons I heard felons say those very words. These are the fruits of the madness the boomers have enabled with their tragically naive presumptuousness. It may be only the mortality of the leftist boomers which brings a long term solution but their onerous influence may carry on. Meanwhile, I think, we must employ corporal defenses against their infernal spawn.
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