As I hear about terrible things that are happening to our
society like the Parkland shooting, Las Vegas and the Church in Southland Texas
I find myself puzzled by the lack of what I consider the understanding of
people as to the real cause. I must
first say I have been a gun owner all my life.
I’ve hunted the Mountains of
Washington State, The Olympic Peninsula and many other areas around Western and
Eastern Washington. I was issued a 45 in
the service and carried it on my hip for several years and In all the years of
owning a gun I have never felt the need to go out and commit mass murder. A gun is a tool, when used properly it can feed
you and your family, when used properly
it can defend you and your family and when it has been cleaned oiled and put
away safe it will do no harm to you and your family. My consternation comes when I hear what we
are teaching our children through their music, games and movies about
life. Music that demeans & condones
violence against women, music that calls for death to Police Officers, music
that glorifies drugs & getting high and the very disturbing music that
attempts to drive a wedge between the races. The violence in many games and movies create
an indifference to death. It’s easy to
kill in a realistic game with the push of a button with no consequences or negative
feelings for the act. It can become
second nature to someone who may have a weakened personality disorder.
We complain about the quality of our schools yet we cripple
them with politically correct policies that breed weakness in the system. Many of our teachers are giving up trying to maintain
discipline as their hollow threats fall on deaf ears. I believe the problem began when our society
decided parents needed to be friends of our children rather than parents. The death of our heritage began with the
teachings of Dr. Spock the well meaning idiot that told us capitol punishment (Spanking)
for our children was cruel and destroyed their Self Esteem. Now I’m not talking about beating a child to
death but I never felt my self esteem damage when I did wrong and was punished
with my dad’s razor strop. Sure it hurt
and even may have left a welt on my butt, but I always knew why I was getting
it and tried hard not to repeat the same mistake again. Our personal history or rather personality is
really decided in our formative years the very years we are allowing our
children to be manipulated by the purveyors of the crap we call entertainment
today. Kids
need to learn to interact with others and play outside in the fresh air yet we
watch as they sit for hours staring at their phones playing who knows what
breathing the same stale air honing their skills at who knows what. No, these killings are not caused by the AR-15
it’s a form of mind poisoning that leads to this behavior. A kid out hunting and target shooting with
his Mother or Father is not the one to worry about. The kid who has never learned how to deal with
and live in our society because they were allowed to withdraw from healthy
activities & interactions with their peers are the ones to watch for.
Don Lindberg 2018
