At the same time, I can't resist a bit of editorial, in case you wonder as you read the quotes below, "why is abortion a topic in this discussion?" Abortion is one of the many cultural markers of the political left (along with others like turning marriage from a solemn commitment and nurturer of children into a whatever-makes-me-happy arrangement, the objectification of women, the prevalence of violent video games with names like Cop Killer or in which the object is to shoot kindergarten children, the coddling of lazy takers and punishment of diligent workers, the subsidizing of illegitimacy, and so many more misnamed "progressive" trends) which have, as C. Adams says below, fundamentally altered America from the former, better days when "right and wrong was more starkly defined, where expectations about behavior were clear, and wickedness hadn’t been normalized." The dominant voices in this liberal culture have normalized all manner of wickedness, emphatically teaching that there are no absolutes, there are no lines in the sand, there is no edge to go over. When the predominant culture raising our children preaches loudly, "if it feels good, do it, your feelings matter above all else, by all means draw attention to yourself, undesirable consequences of your pleasure can be eliminated, and whatever you can get away with is perfectly OK"...why are we surprised when an occasional young person goes over the edge?
Curt
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“To me an obvious thing is for schools to have armed and trained security guards. It is not unusual to see armed security guards at banks because we don’t want someone taking our money. Aren’t our children more valuable? Instead, we ‘protect’ them with ‘Gun-Free Zone’ signs. It makes absolutely no sense for our children’s safety to depend entirely on whether or not a maniac wakes up in the morning and decides to kill children in a ‘gun free zone.’ Guess what? Once the killer steps onto the campus of that school, it is no longer a ‘gun-free zone,’ and the only armed individual is the criminal. Why is this so controversial to the Left? Sadly, it is easier for a murderer to walk into a school with a gun than it is for a student to walk in with a Bible and attempt to give it away. The default position of progressives is to attack the Second Amendment and the availability of guns. Yet the percentage of households with guns has been declining for decades. Fewer Americans hunt today than did several decades ago. In fact, many schools used to have gun clubs on campus. Yet school shootings were rare. Logic suggests that something else explains this shocking trend.” —Gary Bauer
Why would leftists object to armed guards? Because it looks scary? It makes the children feel bad? It suggests that the school is a dangerous place? Probably. In other words, liberals insist that the children believe in the utopia that liberals are creating. God forbid that the children realize that our new culture of death has dangerous consequences even to them! That you can't redefine what is good, right, and wholesome, and not change the nature of our society into something genuinely more frightful. As Winston Churchill said, "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." The results of liberals' values-free utopia are ugly. Curt
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“Thirty years ago, kids who brought their rifles to the high school shooting range didn’t wonder about evil and cultural decay. They simply lived in a time in America when right and wrong was more starkly defined, where expectations about behavior were clear, and wickedness hadn’t been normalized.” —J. Christian Adams
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“Abortionists kill more kids each year than mass shooters, but let’s talk about the latter and not the former.” —Erick Erickson
Since there are over a million abortions per year in the US alone, and well under 10,000 murders with guns, Erickson grossly understates the point! Actually, abortionists kill over 100 times more kids each year than all firearm murders of all kinds combined...but lets talk about gun control instead of the damage (hardening our culture while killing innocent babies) caused by abortions. Curt
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“Liberal arguments on guns: ‘Outlawing them is dangerous.’ ‘No one likes them, but people should have access to them.’ ‘If you don’t like them, don’t get one.’ ‘Your body, your choice.” Oh, wait. My bad. That’s just on abortion. You know, the thing that’s ALWAYS intended for murder.“ —Allie Stuckey
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"I believe the shootings of random, happy people doing normal, quotidian things are a symptom of the spiritual emptiness and loneliness that afflicts a subset of our people — a byproduct of family dissolution and fraying communities. It won’t be solved by any gun measure." —Mona Cheren
