IT'S NOT THE HOW IT'S THE WHY

 IT'S NOT THE HOW IT'S THE WHY!

GUNS ARE NOT THE WHY, 

WHO IS NOT THE WHY!

21 lives lost in another mass murder sparks the rhetoric and misdirection of politi-speak.  Rather than seeking the causes of this type of horror, our society is told to blame anything but the causes.  Our attention is directed toward the weapon, the perpetrator, even the lack of protection. The folks behind those voices shout the approved standard accusations.  The common denominator in those terrible occurrences is not the weapons of choice, the race, creed, social strata, or education.  The effect of this misdirection is our inability to prevent and stop the senseless loss of innocent lives.  It’s time to stop blaming the tools used in these events and to start looking at the WHY.

It seems that this type of event, one that creates deep societal emotion, prompts the urge to shout out all the political and personal beliefs that prop up whatever the cause.  Perhaps one of the WHYS behind the increasing number of these occurrences is the reluctance to look at the log in our own eye.

THE WHY is in the WHAT we put in minds. Not in the WHAT is in the hand of the perpetrators of disasters.  I addressed some of WHAT is happening in my blog. https://arbeeresponds2.blogspot.com/2022/02/wheres-batman.html

The WHY in these events is held in the mind of those killers and is generally some ideological warped thoughts.  In a society where every norm is being questioned, and the morality of previous right and wrong is in doubt, bad things can happen. (I was raised on a small farm and I learned early on that you can't plant weeds and expect wheat as a result.)
While the politicians, educators and news media commentators blame weapons, instead of true cause and effect,  the killing will continue.  These events will continue to plague societies.  When we are being taught to accept everything as right, everything is acceptable, regardless of what we used to believe in, there are no more guardrails.  Instead of looking at the causes of mental instability as the cause, we allow the misdirection of making guns the cause of violence.  We need to pluck our heads from the sand and get pragmatic instead of allowing the emotional permissiveness of political correctness to prevail.

The facts of causation show that the perpetrators of these disasters are: angry, disillusioned, misinformed, prejudiced, mentally disabled or damaged, emotionally separated individuals.  These are the situations that are causally responsible for actions, the actions or the weapons are not what we should be focused on.  If we want to stop this inhumanity we need to attack cause not effect.  One other thing that I learned growing up on the farm/ranch is that holes in the fence, or no fence at all, allow the livestock to go and do whatever they choose to do.

If you choose to teach your children that there are no consequences in life, the fence is gone.

If you choose to teach your children anything they want should be theirs, they will take whatever they want.

Unfortunatly, not getting whatever they think they are entitled to can create any of the above mentioned causes for acting out.

It’s not the guns folks, it’s the mental weeds we sow in the minds of our children, our friends, and our neighbors.

THINK before you sow your seeds.  You just may be part of the cause next time.

 

Pray for our country, our children, and the families affected by any and all tragedy’s

WHERE'S BATMAN

I just finished watching, for the fourth time, one of my childhood heroes unleash justice upon the criminal element of Gotham.  Where is that Bat-creature when our cities are over-run with the unfettered abuse of laws, property and lives?  Gotham was infected with governance that played patty-cake with the criminal element, a judicial system that gave no jeopardy to those who harmed the society at large.  Sounds all too familiar to be pure fiction and sadly too easily recognized as what has become part of our everyday lives in the good ol' U.S.A..  Our national game of politics, as the priority, has taken us into the realm of fiction becoming reality.  Had this been a real sport, the game would have been called a long time ago due to rule infractions and downright cheating.

Batman was, or is, a fortunate vigilante accepted by the majority of regular folks in Gotham and as such he was able to wage his war upon the criminal element.  He was lucky because the society he was trying to protect were not anti-law enforcement.  We are not so fortunate.  We will continue giving up our safety, our income, and our lives to the anarchists and criminal elements as long as we allow the seditionist elements of our country to survive.

Batman may be a figment of one’s imagination but the uprising of vigilantism that will eventually occur will be real.  The society will not allow criminality to continue as long as the population is capable of physically protecting themselves.  If the current trend, in some metropolitan areas, of taking the teeth out the rules protecting the public continues, there will be a war in the streets of our country.  I am not suggesting I am predicting.

What we are experiencing in our country in this time period is the result of our desire to be understanding and forgiving.  In order to concentrate on our everyday lives we have trusted, and trusted but we have not verified.  While we were busy trying to give our children a better world, give ourselves some sugar to go with the lemons of life, we neglected our primary obligation to the preservation of a society that held (still holds) the best hope for mankind’s  future.

It seems the power of ulterior motives much like the “Trojan Horse” has crept into our politics, our educational system, and our entertainment.  We are under constant bombardment of propaganda and indoctrination methods designed to change our society at its foundations.  We may not have the vigilante “Batman” to turn things around but there are still enough folks who care, about the future, that can.  We can see the results of no reprisal for crime throughout our country that is a result of our educational system failing to lift students, in all corners of our society, with the tools to rise above expectations.

What describes the individual person and what dictates his actions is the result of what has been accepted into his thinking. We individuals are naturally forced to act on our beliefs whether they be fact or false.  We have to act according to the information we have gleaned from all phases of our lives.

Most adults in our society are law abiding folks who want to see our world as a peaceful place where we are allowed to live a pleasant life.  We expect our children to learn how to be good little humans who can add, subtract, write and read.  Well folks that just isn’t going to happen if you trust the other guy to make it happen.  You have skin in this game and as such you have some responsibilities.  You can’t depend on Batman.

Pray for our country, our children, and our future.  Most importantly love your fellow man, brother and neighbor.