Nice to hear from you…my health is on decline but im still here…

@CeeCee…You are so right about the importance of proper home and school teachings and their unquestionable impact upon a child’s sense of both self-respect and respect for others! However, given the de rigueur anti-male social conditioning that is so prevalent in today’s public discourse and curriculum, I fear too many of our precious little chaps are sorely lacking in receiving the necessary support and loving guidance that they so deeply deserve and require, especially beginning at a tender age. Just consider that during the last two decades, most young men—particularly, but not exclusively, those of caucasian background—have been constantly subjected to educational efforts and media messaging intending to demonize, marginalize—and even ostracize—them from the mainstream of society. They have been told time and time again that their forefathers, and even more immediate male role models, are responsible for all that’s been— and continues to be—wrong in the world. What kind of twisted agenda is this to be propagated upon any child, let alone an entire class of boys, who had no choice in the race or sex of which they were born? Quite frankly, I’m amazed that there are not more highly-disaffected young (white) men behaving very badly given the outright discrimination and verbal abuse that they’ve faced on a regular basis from the media and certain special interest groups. (Think of the Covington kids who were nationally bashed and harassed based upon a totally false narrative presented by the left and their accomplices in the press…) This despicable practice has been escalating over the past few generations and it’s finally bearing its poisonous fruit. Until we return to promoting the value and worth of this vast group of individuals, we are going to see more and more of these events perpetrated from proponents of all varieties of radical ideologies because fringe organizations directly appeal to this otherwise largely neglected demographic, and all the gun grabs, weapon-free zones and red flag checks on God’s green earth won’t prevent these tragedies from happening. And by the way, we have seen these occurrences repeated with increasing regularity over the last twenty-plus years, spanning four different presidential administrations, two Democrat and two Republican, with majorities in the House and Senate going back and forth between political parties. None of them came up with a solution to this issue, so to try to place the blame on the most recent situations solely at the feet of the current commander-in-chief is a bit rich. Especially when it’s been repeatedly proved that most of the criminals committing these atrocities are not MAGA supporters, but actually the absolute opposite in terms of the politics they espouse. (Although the media often does all it can to conceal this highly inconvenient fact.)

People are frightened to walk out their door I have a alarm system armed still scared to death every day that some wack job is going to come charging thru

I am sorry, but that orange sociopath’s words were echoed by the El Paso shooter in a manifesto he posted on social media. Yes, these massive killings have existed twenty years before the orange sociopath took office. But the orange sociopath has taken a match and lit up the angry, white nationalist. He needs to take responsibility for that. Moreover, he is HORRIBLE at making people feel better in the aftermath of a massive tragedy–all he does is make folks feel more nervous, insecure and scared. America is under attack and the enemy is ourselves–this is domestic terrorism.

Sad, but oh, so true, Kay! Despite the all-too-familiar finger-pointing, blame-gaming and political posturing that occurs every single time one of these evil nutjobs goes off the handle and shoots up a place, nothing—including punishing innocent, law-abiding citizens with ever-stricter prohibitions—is going to stop these nefarious characters as long as the media enable them with both a platform to share their sick manifestos and an ultimate public moment of glorious recognition which they so obviously crave. Where there is a will, there is always going to be a way…whether via the blackmarket for desired weaponry or simply another means to an end, like Oklahoma City, 9/11 or other highly deadly examples which killed many, many people without a single gunshot.

A lot of these problems started decades ago…he may add to the problem but not totally responsible…things should had been done after McDonalds even more so after Sandy Hook…we blamed the killer for those…and had things been pushed years ago much could had been prevented..we do not need military style rifles Mags ex…

peace to you too…and you’re welcome

Please stop with the useless “thoughts and prayers.” Can someone please tell me why any civilian needs to own an assault rifle with high capacity magazines?

Thanks

No, it was actually the exact opposite, my dear Harry! For the eight years preceding Trump, your guy gave the middle finger to Middle America at every opportunity! People lost homes, lifelong careers, investments and health care that they liked and had earned the right to keep whilst he was more interested in being a celebrity-like “president of the world,” bashing law enforcement, letting all and sundry cross our Southern border at immense expense to taxpayers with no concerns for the safety and welfare of our own citizens and micro-managing personal life matters like what one’s child eats for lunch and which restrooms people should be using…the latter two which should have been decided (if at all) at the state and local government levels, not by federal dictate. Instead of espousing “American exceptionalism” and trying to unite the country over the ties which bind us, he never failed to criticize with great relish our nation and its founding (both here and abroad) and sanctimoniously lecture us as to “whom we are”—-aka, what he opined we all should be—rather than allowing individual freedom of thought and expression. In no way did he represent or speak for me—or anyone I know—with his condescending rhetoric or deeds which did more to divide us and stir resentment long before Donald Trump ever assumed his campaign mantle. Yet, despite all these legitimate grievances that a broad portion of the population harbored over the previous administration’s policies and attitudes which negatively affected a wide swath of America, all the left can come up with to explain our current president’s amazing victory is “racism” (and/or “Russian collusion!”) Instead, try “realism!” We lived through the daily consequences brought by the results of elections 2008 and 2018, and found them to be totally unacceptable. Until Donald J. Trump came along to listen to our concerns and actually do something to address them, nobody in either political party demonstrated the will or gumption to do so…that is why he so strongly connected with his base and continues to remain in our good graces. And by the way, all the pejorative labeling, doxxing, milkshaking, threats, harassment, protesting, Hollywood-based mockery and censorship efforts directed toward the Trump family, GOP officials and MAGA supporters is not going to change that fact….it only serves to makes us stronger, even more unified and deeply determined to see our man re-elected in 2020. Have a good weekend, Harry!