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
