Posted on 07/06/2009 4:51:31 PM PDT by k3nn3th
Leave it to some loony leftist like Mike Lupica to try to use the tragic events surrounding Steve McNair's death as an occasion to complain about guns. McNair's death is not a result of gun culture. Guns were the least of the myriad problems. The issue that should be brought to light by the murder of Mr. McNair is the overarching cultural collapse we're seeing in our country.
As cliche' as it will sound, our culture is in trouble. Of course, those on the political Left hate to hear people talk about cultural issues. No doubt they will lie in wait to celebrate after catching me in some shortcoming. Whether I fail or not, which I most certainly will, won't negate the fact that there is a right way and a wrong way.
We've been taught to view with hostility and contempt anyone who, rather than blaming inanimate objects like guns, challenges us to look at our values. What are the finger-pointers on the Left really trying to say when they celebrate the falling of someone who tries to promote cultural standards?
"Trying to have standards is pointless, old fashioned and stupid!!! We don't need no stinking standards!"
That sure makes a lot of sense. Clearly it's much easier (and safer if one doesn't want to be called a hypocrite) to blame an object like a gun rather than looking at the underlying cultural disease.
Side note: How did anyone who says anything about standards suddenly become a hypocrite? Hypocrite is apparently worse than child molester. Do people who use that word really understand how silly they are? Are they advocating that there should be NO religious instruction, for certainly every preacher sins in some way? Iron sharpens iron. We all must challenge one another to be better.
Passe' Notions of Marriage Part of this cultural disease expresses itself in the fact that our society no longer values marriage. Movies and television shows mock marriage. It seems like every week another prominent person comes forward confessing to some act of marital perfidy. Entire television shows are even dedicated to "Cheaters."
Many in the younger generation have no desire at all to get married. Young women have learned to view marriage as some sort of a loss of their identity. Young men see marriage as a loss of their ability to have sex with as many women as possible. The old adage "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" has turned to "Let's go halves on a baby."
Out of wedlock births are at all-time highs and increasing every day. This is true among all racial/ethnic groups. A-list celebrities like Halle Berry and Matthew McConaughey are celebrated for having children out of wedlock. We have no shame as a society.
Mr. Lupica is either unwilling or incapable of looking at the real issue. Mr. McNair should not have been with this young woman. It's not a matter of judging McNair. It's stating the obvious. Married people should not be with anyone other than their spouses. Even if every preacher and conservative on the planet cheated on their spouses, that truth won't change. Outdated notions like those "stupid" Ten Commandments weren't given to keep us from having fun. They've been passed down to keep us out of this kind of trouble.
Who killed McNair? No one knows at this point. The reality is that they could have done it a different way.
Some are speculating that the woman found with McNair, 20-year-old Sahel Kazemi, shot McNair and then killed herself. If that's the case, then that poor woman could have just as easily used poison. Jim Jones killed over 900 people at once doing just that. Let's ban cyanide and Kool-Aid. Better yet, ban cigarettes, because they kill far more people.
So, Mr. Lupica, the problem isn't a "gun" culture. Our society's problems run far deeper than that. It's our prideful nature and Leftist brainwashing that keep us from looking at those issues. Stick to sports analysis...or something.
I detest Lupica.
Bravo! Great article!
Why doesn’t Lupica mention the extremely high rate of black on black violence that occurs EVERYDAY in this country before bashing guns.
1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Nice article, by the way...
Don’t let this Lupica guy fool you. He, and all of his kind, use McNair’s death merely as an excuse to promote his anti-gun bias.
Hell, what does he want? That we all disarm so as to fall prey to the elites and criminals who will not disarm.
Lupica and his ilk dance on the graves of the dead just to promote their gun grabbing, nanny state, anti-freedom agenda. No doubt Lupica is busy at a cocktail party with Sarah Brady tonight to celebrate another gun death.
Is that midget still writing a column? Who knew?
I use to read Lupica faithfully until he started inserting his opinion into politics. His smarmy pen reminds me of Bill Maher. Now, I won’t go near his column and the similarly smart-alecky Sports Reporters show on ESPN.
It’s more apt that Mr. McNair’s death be correlated to the hazards of shacking up with a waitress half his own age while still a married man with children. Mike Lupica instinctively blames “the gun culture” and fails to examine the far more harmful “cult of celebrity” because he is member-in-good-standing of that club. How many times must we be subjected to tales of star athletes whose private lives are train wrecks? Drug use, domestic violence, drunk raving, gambling, animal abuse, and materialistic excess are but a few examples of depravity that we’ve recently observed in the “sports” section. Rather than condemn the natural right of common people to their own self-defense and the protection of that right by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, Mike Lupica ought reflect on his own responsibility to the First Amendment guarantee of a free press by writing the truth.
Bread and circuses.
America makes heroes out of adults who play a child’s game.
Very well said.
Thanks.
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