Thirty to forty years ago you could buy an M-1 Garand (military surplus) for less than $30.00. JC Penny, Montgomery Ward and Sears and Roebuck all sold guns via their catalogs. All you had to do was mail in your money order to a warehouse somewhere and they would send you the weapon. No background check, nothing. You could also buy as much 30 caliber ammunition as you wanted and they would ship it to you. You could order it under the name of Mickey Mouse and no one cared. Yet, no one killed children in school. No one walked into a church and shot people who were there for bible study. Children could actually play in their front yard or even (gasp) walk by themselves down to the park where they would play all day, not having to worry about the drug deals or the crazies living in the park. Not an armed adult in sight.
So what has changed? Why now do we go through this?
This, ladies and gentlemen; this disease comes to lay directly at the feet of the 'progressives' among us. Those who stand in an intersection downtown and yell at passing cars that they are going to 'kill' you are no longer able to be committed for their own and societies good. You can't make them take their medicine. Medicine which, if they just took it, would take the edge off of their manic depressive episodes. I have a nephew who is schizophrenic and he is dangerous. He has threatened to kill his parents and his sister. His mother and father have begged, pleaded with everyone, anyone to do something and they will not. They have had him committed and they have tried to force him to take his medication. He takes it, feels a little better, only to walk out the door a week later. Then he stops taking his medicine and it starts again. There is no where to put him the doctors tell them. He has the 'right' not to take his medicine, even if he is a clear danger to those around him, the doctors say. So the parents did the only thing they could. They threw this kid out of the house and told him that if he came back, they would have to have him arrested, or worse, they would use force against him. His father bought a gun. An 870 Remington that I helped him get and showed him how to use. They moved to a different town and didn't tell him where they are. So now, this kid lives on the street and he is a ticking time bomb. God help us... God help those who meet him on the street.
Progressives have created a society where the individual and the list of their 'rights' that they should demand continues to grow day by day. No longer do children learn of morals, values, to be kind to their neighbors and of the 'Golden Rule.' Now, there are no consequences of 'sinful' actions, only the fifteen minutes of fame that these situations provide. Since man has become the ultimate pinnacle of a progressive world, there is no God to fear, no Jesus to emulate. No longer do school age children hear of their eternal souls and of how they should do right by their neighbors. No, you owe me... is now the battle cry of this progressive society. Likewise, Barry lectures the nation about guns, but once again, has failed to state the obvious... that Christians have been singled out for extermination. Imagine if the dead had been Muslim or transgender students. Imagine the righteous indignation of him and the progressives.
I am convinced that this nation has passed a critical point in its timeline. I am almost convinced that we can not be brought back from the brink this time.