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.
