Schools across the area and around the state were locked down today due to false reports of active shooters, a disgusting followup to the school shooting earlier this week in Nashville.
If this sort of thing surprises you, it’s most likely because you are not paying close enough attention.
As a society, we have given free passes to members of protected groups, to slackers, to children in general, to ineffective parents, to governments of all levels.
Accountability, and meaningful punishment for bad actors, for incompetent stewards, for people simply unable or unwilling to conform to societal norms, is nowhere to be found. Instead, there are rewards, often monetary as bestowed by governments intent on robbing the bedrock members of society to have more to give to the strange agents.
Instead of calling for meaningful action, we have psycho-babble designed to cloud the issue and deflect blame.
Consider the outright morons posting on various social media platforms who are upset about the pronouns being used to describe the Nashville school shooter, and making dire predictions about retaliatory violence against transsexuals. The shooter, born a woman and identifying as man, is alleged to have killed six people at the school, three adults and three children.
Mercifully, the Nashville police, instead of cowering outside as happened in a Texas school shooting, tracked down the gender-confused individual and dispatched it, with appropriate malice and followthrough.
Repeat: Six innocents killed and social media morons are upset by pronouns used to describe the shooter, or seek to justify the violence based on perceived violence against transsexuals before or after this incident.
I knew something was unusual about this shooting when, in the immediacy of the moment, there was not a flood of “another angry white man” commentary.
Shooting from the lip is a social media sickness. Why wait for the facts when posting emotional garbage is so easy?
Predictably, the usual suspects have seized on this tragedy to lobby for the banning of guns. I submit that if a few teachers in that school had been armed, there could have been zero loss of life. I’ve read reports that the shooter considered other sites, but thought them to be too well-protected and so opted for the soft target of a school.
Do we ban gasoline, flammable objects such as homes, barns and vehicles, or the ability to purchase same when an arsonist is about?
Do we ban cars because teenagers might drive them and they are statistically the most likely demographic to have an accident and/or die while driving?
Do we have breathless reports after every teen auto fatality that the car was LEGALLY PURCHASED as happens with gun incidents?
Can we ask some hard questions of the parents of this Nashville shooter, 28 years old and still living at home and possessing guns despite being treated for emotional problems?
Permissive parenting, a legal system intent on providing scofflaws — be they adults or juveniles — countless chances despite their criminal records, school systems turning out functional illiterates long on experience avoiding learning and long on manipulating the system for special accommodations, all contribute to the mess that is society circa 2023.
From the history repeats category, this is nothing new. More than six centuries back (that’s more than 600 years for all who now attend or recently graduated a public school) as Constantinopile was in the process of falling to Ottomans, the elites of Constantinopile were consumed by the debate over the gender of angels.
If this sounds too much like the navel-gazing that dominates this nation, you are correct.
Things will continue to worsen until such time as accountability and punishment are once again accepted, spoken of, and practiced in polite company.
Long before that might happen, it is most likely we will endure more school shootings, more bastardizations of the truth in the name of carving out advantages for protected groups, more playing fast and loose with the facts of a given situation in order to further ridiculous political and social agendas.
Our society is failing. The evidence is pervasive.
You say jails are too full? I’ll pay more taxes so that more can be built.
You say people with mental illness cannot be treated differently than the sane? I say, fine, let all the mental health professionals who proclaim a disturbed individual is no threat to society, be held accountable for any and all crimes said individuals commit.
You say I’m overly harsh? I say six dead people at a school because some mentally ill, gender-confused individual had a grudge is even more harsh.
For the misguided counting on artificial intelligence to save us from ourselves, think again.
Stories are widely circulating about one AI chatbot concluding that uttering a racial slur aloud, even if it would prevent a nuclear holocaust, cannot be done because racial slurs are totally unacceptable. Millions, if not billions dead is OK, though.
Remember, AI is but the product of Woke programmers, inflicting their biases on the computer’s function.
Buckle up, people, This insanity not only will continue, it will almost assuredly worsen, until the rational people finally decide they have had enough and fight back.
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