Friday, February 23, 2018

From The Mouths Of Babes


I, for one, am energized with the latest movement against our harmful rabbit hole we are all going down. After the last ‘horrid event’ the children are now standing up and shouting for the adults to protect them. It is a cry for help from those who do not have the ability to feed, clothe, shelter or protect them.
Like the #MeToo movement, there is a bit of guts to this children’s movement to adults. It is not like no one knew any of these issues were going on but the adults form a committee and then make a study and a report and sometimes a legislation that doesn’t get passed and the grown ups say their politically acceptable statements and wring their hands and go home and wait for the pizza to arrive.
Today it seems some businesses are becoming sympathetic to the children’s plea and close ties with weaponry proponents may just be a brief PR stint or something else? If everyone points to a non-profit organization that pays no taxes but funds political bureaucrats as the reason for this massacre is like questioning the world’s religions for the constant history of war.
Will we listen to the children’s cry for help? Will we do more than light a candle and have a quiet time of reflection and try to distract their attention to something better than death? Will we imprison our kids in walled shelters manned by armed guards and lockdown alert drills? Will we close outside sporting events with the possibility of a random deadly assault?
Will we (the adults) do something?
Even if it is wrong the children are looking for parents and elected leaders to show enough gonads to DO SOMETHING! Stop all the blah-blah-blah and DO SOMETHING! Arm the teachers or ban the assault rifles or expand research for mental health but DO SOMETHING!
Will we?

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