Went to a movie this weekend for the first time in 2 years.
Yep, in the previews, I saw our society in a heap of festering moral corruption.
I felt assaulted.
"The mother of the gunman who killed 20 children and seven adults in America’s worst school massacre, was a gun-proud “survivalist” preparing for economic collapse, it has emerged.
Mark
Actually, possessing a firearm(s) during economic as well as a societal collapse is probably the most intelligent decision one can make.
Answer for America:
2 CHRONICLES 7:14
14 If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Why isn't Chicago's Mayor patrolling the streets every Fir and Sat night to explain to the yutes that they need to follow the gun laws?
Why isn't Chicago's Mayor patrolling the streets every Fri. and Sat. night to explain to the yutes that they need to follow the gun laws?
After all, we banned drugs, and we no longer have drugs on our streets
And during prohibition we banned alcohol, and we never had any alcohol
And we made it illegal to steal and so nothing ever gets stolen anymore
And we made it illegal to commit murder, so that has stopped
So lets make it illegal to for ALL law-abidinng citizens to have guns and then no one will have them! After all why do they need them? No one ever gets robbed or murdered anymore.
It’s well-known to most FReepers, but society in general is completely missing the root causes of tragedies such as these.
I stayed up last night to watch the 49ers-Patriots game, and at game’s end came a commercial for a new video game, “Hitman.. Absolution.” As expected, the game consists of numerous sequences of mass violence.. shoot-em-up gun battles with whomever gets in the “protagonist’s” way.
Banning possession of firearms is not only unconstitutional, but completely ineffectual, when the “weapon” in this case is the one attacking the mentalities of young people who have their noses planted to a computer screen for hours at a time engaging in whatever hot, new blood-on-the-streets gaming app or DVD happens to be popular. Their brains are getting fried to the point of total desensitization. And I’m willing to bet this freak Adam Lanza was one of those obsessive “gamers.”
That said, I’m not for banning those games, but a heavy dose of deglamorization would be in order.
You can pass all the laws you want, but laws cannot change the heart of a man, and that's the plain fact that people are assiduously avoiding, particularly the goddless, among whom rank the Democratic Party that openly rejected having the mere mention of God in their platform.
American society, Liberals mostly, have chosen to decouple society from Biblical standards and principles, and then they wonder how all the insanity that follows could happen. They have sown evil and thus they have loosed evil.
There is no mystery here.
But, of course, our politicians aren’t interested in COMMON SENSE.
Citizens Commission on Human Rights is a Scientology front group. I otherwise thought the article was right on target.
Didn’t Jamie Fox just make a movie where he brags about killing white people?
Didn’t a preacher who is a Union leader just threaten a Governor, and his children ?
Didn’t the little midget Scientologist Tom Cruise just make a movie they won’t show in Connecticut now because of the killings?LOL Tom Cruise as a fighting agent is a joke to start with.He might frighten his ex-wives, but no one else.
All the smug people that sneer at old fashioned, out of date values are trying to blame an inanimate object for the behavior of dysfunctional people.
“But of course most of our politicians are not interested in common sense. Instead, they are obsessed with the idea that gun control will make our country “safe” again.”
Gun control is not about making the citizens safe, it all about making sure they do not rebel against the people who enable the lawaless to prey upon the citizens.
Mass Killings Stopped by Armed Citizens
Pacifism: The Ultimate Immorality by Raymond Kraft
Last week, Jack and Jill Pacifisto were walking home through the park after dinner with friends, during which they had spent a few hours discussing the immorality of violence and war and their commitments to send more money to progressive activists over the next year. Suddenly, Tony Thug stepped out of the shadows and pointed a pistol at Jack and said, “Give me your wallet,” and, pointing the gun at Jill, “Your purse.”
“What?” asked Jack, incredulous, “Hey, we don’t want any trouble. We’re pacifists. We aren’t going to hurt you.”
“Not my problem,” said Tony, “Gimme your money.”
So Jack and Jill did, and then Tony said, “And now gimme your watches, rings, jewelry, everything worth anything.”
“Hey,” said Jill, “This is my wedding ring!”
And Tony said, “Not my problem.”
Jack and Jill handed over their wallet, and purse, and all their jewelry and Rolex watches, and then Tony shot them both twice in the chest and picked up the loot and stepped back into the shadows.
As Jill lay dying she whispered, “Jack? Why didn’t you fight back? Why didn’t you have a gun?” Those were her last words.
“I couldn’t,” whispered Jack. “I’m a pacifist.” Those were his last words.
A few days later, Bill Thaxton and his wife were walking home through the park after dinner, when Tony Thug stepped out of the shadows.
“Give me your wallet, your purse,” said Tony, pointing his gun first at Bill, and then at his wife. He did not know that Bill was an old lawman, and had been a Marine sniper when he was young, and was active in the Single Action Shooters Society and had a concealed-carry-permit. Tony assumed that the old man was just an old man with some money and a few credit cards in his wallet walking home from dinner.
“Sorry, friend, I don’t like guns, and I don’t want any trouble,” said Bill.
“Not my problem,” said Tony, “Gimme your wallet, your purse,” he said, waving the gun at Bill’s wife, “Rings, watches, everything.”
“And what if I don’t?” asked Bill.
“I’ll shoot you both. Her first,” said Tony, pointing his gun at Bill’s wife again.
“Well,” said Bill, “Okay, honey, do what he says.”
She tossed down her purse. Bill reached slowly for his left lapel with his right hand and then, like lightning, did a cross-draw with his left and came out blazing with his trusty little 9, nailing Tony three times.
As he lay on the sidewalk dying, Tony Thug was heard to mutter, “Damn, I shoulda stuck with the pacifists . . .”
An acquaintance wrote me last week to tell me proudly how he had been a pacifist since the ‘60s. His letter set me thinking about pacifism, which is the ultimate and vilest form of immorality.
If you are Hitler, or Saddam, or Osama, or Ahmadinejad, your desire to kill those you dislike is at least honest and open. You wear you hate on your sleeve and we know who and what you are. But the Pacifist wears his refusal to resist evil as if it were a badge of honor, and claims it as a sign of his or her absolute moral superiority. The Hitlers and Osamas are at least honest about who they are, the Pacifist is not. Not even to himself.
The German Pastor Martin Niemoller wrote a poem circa 1946 about the quiescence of German intellectuals in the face of the Nazi rise to power that has become famous. Translated, it reads:
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent,
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists
I did not speak out,
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews
I did not speak out,
I was not a Jew.
When they came for me
there was no one left to speak out.
The Pacifist says something like this, but, unlike Niemoller, without apology. He says:
When you come for my allies
I will not fight you,
for I am a Pacifist.
When you come for my countrymen
I will not fight you,
for I am a Pacifist.
When you come for my neighbor,
I will not fight you,
for I am a Pacifist.
When you come for my mother,
my father, my brother,
my sister, I will not fight you,
for I am a Pacifist.
When you come for my wife,
my husband, my son,
my daughter, I will not fight you,
for I am a Pacifist.
When you come for me,
I will not fight you,
for I am a Pacifist.
The Pacifist claims that he (or she) is too good to fight against evil, and this is the catastrophic intellectual and moral failure of Pacifism. In the guise of being too good to oppose evil, the Pacifist invokes the ultimate immorality by aiding and abetting and encouraging evil, on the pretext of being too pure, too wise, too sophisticated to fight evil, thereby turning the pretense of goodness and purity into an invocation and license for evil to act without opposition.
The moral stance of the Pacifist is, unwittingly perhaps, homicidal, genocidal, fratricidal, suicidal. The Pacifist says, in effect: “There is nothing good worth fighting for. And there is nothing so evil worth fighting against.”
The Pacifist is willing to give evil free reign, because he or she thinks or feels that fighting against evil is even worse than evil itself . . . an intellectual and moral equivocation of monumentally staggering proportions. In order to be a Pacifist, one must hold that Nazism or Islamism or Communism or any other puritanical totalitarian ideology that seeks to slaughter or oppress all the Jews or all of any other race or tribe is no worse, is not morally inferior, to the existence of Jews and Judaism, or whatever other race or tribe is the whipping boy of the day.
To be a Pacifist, one must hold that acquiescence to a Jihad that seeks to destroy Western Civilization is no worse than Western Civilization, even though the Jihad seeks to extinguish intellectual freedom, religious freedom, political freedom, and ultimately even the freedom to be a Pacifist.
As the English philosopher Edmund Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” The Pacifist replies, “I am so good that I will do nothing, I will hurt no one, even if that means that good will be destroyed and evil will win. I am so peaceful that I will not discriminate between the goodness of good and the badness of evil, certainly not with enough conviction to take up arms, literally or figuratively, against the triumph of evil over good, of totalitarianism over freedom, of barbarianism over civilization.”
And so the Pacifist, perhaps unthinkingly, unwittingly, mistakenly, is deeply mired in his intellectual confusion, but surely and unequivocally, the epitome of evil itself, For the Pacifist devoutly believes that by refusing to fight against evil he is affirming that he is good, too good and pure to oppose evil, too good and pure to fight evil, to good and pure to kill evil. But in the end, he is the enabler without whom the triumph of evil would not be possible.
I watched the Cowboys-Steelers game. They showed the player, who DUI, killed his team mate last week. The player was on the sidline with the team...”out of jail.” The talking heads agreed that they thought it was inappropriate and “sending the wrong signal” having that jerk on the sideline during the game. I agree.
Ummm... How does one subtract one date ending in "2" from another date ending in "2" -- and come up with a difference ending in "5"?
Would taking guns away from law abiding citizens, prevent a rage & hate driven sociopath from obtaining a gun--or, if unable to obtain a gun--hurling a Molotov Cocktail into a classroom? (A well armed teacher might, but not an Unconstitutional Federal Law.)
The reality is that we have been Losing America's Multi-Generational Purpose. and with it the foundations for constructive--as opposed to destructive--behavior.
William Flax