Saw a thought-provoking bumper sticker on my morning
commute. From the back of the vehicle ahead of me, It proclaimed “God, guns and
guts - have kept America free for over 200 years!”
Things that make ya say “Hmm....”
It occurs to me that over the past several decades God
has been pretty thoroughly pushed out - out of schools, the workplace,
government and the courts and the media....
And, we’ve so watered down our stamina through handout
programs and societal concepts that we can’t risk offending anybody at all over
anything and “everyone get’s a trophy” that we as a people don’t really have
the “guts” we were once so famous for having - no where close to it.
So...here we sit on the precipice of the great abyss...
the week before a planned nationwide school student walkout for safer schools
in the wake of the latest mass murder in a “gun free zone” (as all public
schools are). Now, they’re not walking out demanding armed police be stationed
INside their schools to protect them. They’re not demanding a few armed and
trained teachers to be able to respond far quicker from INside the school than
law enforcement OUTside and from farther away could do.
They’re not even demanding stricter laws governing what
people with documented mental illness and criminal records can walk among us
and purchase firearms.
Oh, no; they’re demanding we take punitive action against
the gun! Like take it away kind of actions, banning certain kinds of
semi-automatic firearms and magazines greater than a handful of rounds and so
on.
So, God’s pretty well gone from our everyday culture. The
people with “guts” are more and more dissipating from our world. When guns are
gone, how long will America – as we ever knew it – last?
