I’m 62 and I can relate to everything in this article. Simply put, chasing God out of the classroom sure as heck didn’t usher in The Age Of Reason.
From a rural area where all pickup trucks had gun rack in back window. Not only did male teachers “bring”their guns to school but so did many of the older male students that left early to get into the fields to work or came late after work or hunting.
All homes had a rifle in the back closet In my home it was used by my mother (an ACE shot on PU rifle team) the source of name hoosiermama.
My high school had a rifle range in the school basement. Surplus WWII weapons were easily and cheaply purchased by mail from Ye Old Hunters Lodge. Murder was considered a horrible crime. Strongly agree, it’s not the guns or access to them but the attitude of people. Thanks in part to some of my favorite movies, we blurred the line between good and evil and now live in a gray area. With abortion we cheapened life. Now we rewrite history to make founders bad guys and almost daily challenge the laws and framework they gave us. We have become lazy and look at socialism as a utopia instead of realizing it represents slavery. The sad reality is that as we age, we will become victims to younger generations not embracing those attributes which made America great. MAGA is not just a slogan but a chance to save an America founded on Godly principles.
What’s the difference between yesteryear and today?
In regards to school shootings? Easy. Some student or students would have grabbed the shooter and beat the living crap out of him and if he survived held him for the police. That is if one of then had not gone out to their truck got their own gun and found the shout and blasted his ass! But basically it is this. We did not count on the “Government” or anyone else to take care of us. We knew that it was our own responsibility and we accepted that and did that!
I recall a classmate that stabbed his father with a knife, a friend of my parents who beat his wife (found out when he died) and a neighbor who beat his son and the son was later convicted of murder. There were problems but they were blamed on the person committing the crime.
Have we lost our moral standards? Now we follow political correctness and blame something else for our problems?
We need God in our lives and in society.
I’m 63 and when I was in 6th and 7th grade (elementary school - no “middle schools” back then), a lad in my tweens, I can recall riding Mrs. Baker’s bus to school with my friends during Dove season, all of us carrying our 410s and 20-gauges. Mrs. Baker was cool with that as long as they were unloaded.
At school, we lined them up neatly in the coat room and went to class where we started the day with the pledge to our flag and a prayer to our Lord.
In the afternoon, we collected our shotguns and walked home through the fields and while we seldom shot a bird, we did shoot at them and we never, ever shot each other, even though we sometimes had fist-fights on those walks - as kids were prone to do.
Now-a-days, if there is a flag and a pledge, there is also some “opt-out” or “take a knee” clause, and there are no prayers at all as God has been removed from our public schools. I’m as appalled at the school shootings as anyone, but it astonishes me when folks get bent out of shape, when after kicking God out, the devil comes to call. All I’m hearing from some, even most youngsters these days is that gun owners are “terrorists” and I’m a bad man and a “bitter clinger”. It’s time to do something for sure, but banning guns won’t save your soul.
“Haters gonna hate”, as evidenced by racist Nazi-boy Dylann Roof who murdered nine at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. If he hadn’t had a gun, he’d have used a bomb or a vehicle, a knife or his bare hands - and that kind of racist hatred, that leads one to murder fellow human-beings, be it with a rock or a gas chamber is born in ignorance, lies and “the Devil’s right-hand”. As I understand, the Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas actually had a “Gun-free Zone” sign at the entrance and I reckon those good Christians followed the rules. By the way, it was a neighbor who heard the ruckus and took the shooter down with a gun.
I won’t mention any names, but all my preachers carry in the pulpit along with a half-dozen deacons, ushers, some Sunday school teachers and most of the choir. Some are concealed and others open carry (including Yours Truly). A “shooter” brandishing a firearm wouldn’t have much of a chance making it across the parking lot, much less getting through the vestibule and just to clarify, Pastor has yet to shoot anyone by accident or otherwise.
I know that in this world, there is Good and there is Evil and I think most people accept that as far as it goes. You can call it “God” and “the Devil” and again, folks get the drift. I know that God is love - I’ve been blessed beyond anything I deserve. If Evil comes knocking, Good folk need to make a stand. Making guns illegal is as effective as that “gun-free zone” sign and if you demonize the Good folk that follow the rules and take away rights “imbued by our Creator” it just assures that Evil will win every time because Evil has no rules.
Much has changed socially, with very much of it purposely directed by social Marxists/Progressives.
God’s out of schools, Dr. Spock stopped spankings, the pill arrived and fornication flourishes, students got political power over adults, fathers are out of our homes, large numbers of mental institutions were shut down, faggotry is rampant and marketed, abortion as birth control is popular, violent shoot-em-up video games saturate young minds, and legal punishment jsn’t really punishment.
Thanks for posting. Great posts BUMP!
What’s the difference between yesteryear and today?
In regards to school shootings? Easy. Some student or students would have grabbed the shooter and beat the living crap out of him and if he survived held him for the police. That is if one of then had not gone out to their truck got their own gun and found the shout and blasted his ass! But basically it is this. We did not count on the “Government” or anyone else to take care of us. We knew that it was our own responsibility and we accepted that and did that!
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Walter Williams common sense!
Things have just been downhill since.
It’s mostly psychotropic drugs
To me, the reason is preachers, parents, and your average individual doesn't believe in or teach the doctrine of Hell or damnation for really serious sins, let alone other "Deadly" Sins.
As nutty and inconceivable as this writer says it would be back then to imagine school shootings, that is EXACTLY how nutty one is perceived if he believes in Hell or teaches it to his flock or his children nowadays.
Fatima was only 100 years ago... a blink of an eye on the Biblical scale.
People need to know the testimony of those saintly kids, who saw Hell, in real time. Lucia, who died just recently, lived too long and left too much credible testimony to be denied.
People need to ponder it and get to biting their fingernails again.
Bttt.
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