When Will We As a Society End the Madness?

In the face of another mind-numbing school shooting I am watching the usual suspects say the usual things, but one question from someone who advocates for taking guns away caught my attention.  “When will we, as a society, end the madness and protect our children?”  That is a fair question, the only problem with it is the idea that society can end the problem as if there is some magic solution.  If we do X then everything will be okay.  That is the fatal flaw in the left’s approach, they think if they destroy the NRA and remove all the guns from society things will be better.

We have spent the last 60-years creating this society.  It has been formed through the social evolution of both the right and the left where we move to the extreme and each social group demands their supremacy and vilifies those who don’t support them.  We’ve funded an entertainment industry that makes billions of dollars off the violent nature of man while creating an economic elite who feel it is their right to tell the average person how life should be lived.  We’ve encouraged that same entertainment industry to vilify family and family values, suggesting on almost every medium the parents are stupid and if it wasn’t for the kid's everything would unravel, or that one race is superior to another.

At the same time, I see social postings from my generation who talk about how they were disciplined as children and today’s children have it too easy.  But where is their acknowledgment of their choice not to disciple their children, or condemn the social evolution that took place in front of their own eyes?

We want the madness to end but believe it’s someone else’s fault it exists and it is someone else’s job to fix it.  Whose job is it?  Surely not the government’s?  It can’t even implement a simple thing like a reasonable immigration standard or agree on a budget before the government shuts down.  How about the teachers?  Don’t we now want them to teach morality to a generation of children, whose parents have spent a lifetime questioning the morality of their parents?  They are the ones who’ve allowed the bullying to take place while advocating for social justice for the misunderstood.  Clearly, they can fix the problem since, according to some, they’ve created it. If we just throw them some more money the problem will go away?

Maybe we can turn to the entertainment industry who are more than happy to weigh in on the evil of guns while guarded by armed security.  They will have an answer while pushing the latest gun-filled mega-epic.

How about all the millennials who fill the social media space with thought-provoking and insightful posts like “your [sic] a whore.”  I am certain they have the solution, unfortunately, it would require our abandonment of the Constitution.

Here is an idea I’ve not heard discussed much by the experts in the media.  Maybe we should think about the role of a family in society and how important the parents are to creating a good person and start with that as a way to change the narrative.

Silly me, that would never work.  How can you get a click-bait headline out of “Child successfully integrates into society thanks to good parents.”