Bark at the Moon

If you go outside and start barking like a dog, the whole neighborhood will come alive with distant barking from all directions.  Man, I must have had a boring childhood.  Tonight, I went over to a neighbor’s house to let their dogs in for the night, while their owners were out of town.  I caught myself talking to them as if I had known them all my life.  For some odd reason, dogs seem to understand me.  Not when I bark… I’m talking about speaking to them as if they have a full command of the English language.  My dog knows when I am happy and when I am sad.  She knows just the right time to put her head on my leg.  It’s been said that dogs can read minds.  Whatever.  All I know, is you can talk to a dog and they listen better than most humans.  I just wish they wouldn’t crap on the floor.

Why Do We Kill?

Talk radio can be exhausting.  Everybody is bitching about what the other side is doing.  Maybe folks just like to bitch.  Lately, I have not been listening to talk radio.  There is no election to follow and if there is a political scandal, there never seems to be a resolve.  When I was a child, I shared a bedroom with my younger sister.  We placed orange Hot Wheel tracks down the center of the room to divide it into separate sections.  We would complain about what the other was doing on their side.  Really, we had more fun when there was no track.  Liberals and conservatives want power because there is money attached.  In the game of politics, people become part of a tribe and are brainwashed into believing a single ideology. As long as political officials are elected, there has to be persuasion of the masses. The 2012 election was a disappointment for me because I didn’t like either platform.  If there was some way to strip the money and power away from politics, we could produce real results.  The gain would be for the better of our society, where people benefit… not an agenda.  Today, everybody is talking about gun control… I mean “Gun Safety” where tougher laws will curb gun violence.  The bigger issue is why people want to kill each other.  There will always be a mentally ill individual that goes on a shooting spree and it will scare the hell out of us.  But, there are thousands of killings that happen every year that are gang related or involve domestic violence.  Why do we kill each other?  If we can answer that question, we will quell the killing and be a safer community.  Moral decay and poverty would be my guess.  I believe in our constitution.  It is a brilliant document.  I support the Second Amendment and the rights it gives to the people for gun ownership.  Background checks?  By all means.  A waiting period? Ok, I guess.  A ten round magazine?  That is plenty for self-defense.  This is workable.  Let’s invest money in mental health care and get to the bottom of why our society kills it’s own.  If people want to kill people… many people, it is easy and does not take guns.  Don’t forget that Timothy McVie used fertilizer and diesel fuel, and the 911 terrorists commandeered the planes with box cutters.  Treat the mentally ill and rebuild the moral conscious of America.  Once a day, pray for our future, even if it is at a stoplight.  We will not get better on our own.