The National Rifle Association has finally done it.
They’ve given us a clear vision of the future of American society, at least for
the first half of the twenty-first century.
The organization’s executive vice-president, Wayne
LaPierre, has articulated an unassailable case for placing armed guards in
every elementary school in American. One really cannot argue with the
perfection of his vision.
It’s well past time we stopped coddling our youth.
These youngsters have no business being deluded by well-meaning adults.
The imagination stops here. It stops now.
As everyone with a pulse has figured out, we have nothing
of value in our society. There is nothing worth striving for besides
money and power and trophy spouses. Oh yeah, the cars. One must
have a statement vehicle.
But I digress. The point is that we can no longer
handicap our young by sustaining a notion that life is not horrible and
stressful at all times and in all ways for the adult population. This
much is clear from recent public dialog, not only with regard to mass shootings
of innocents, but also on the national front with elected leaders who are
unable to work together or vaguely agree on what constitutes the “common good”.
Everybody loses is the new win-win.
If people of good will cannot break down barriers that
keep us uninformed and stressed out about “those people” of whom we know
nothing, it will certainly serve us right to degenerate into urban
madness. The homeland war that George W. Bush so often promised will be
upon us, not perpetrated by the fundamentalist Islamists but by our own
selves. We have met the enemy and it’s us. Can we all just get
along?
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