The millennial generation might be surprised to learn that theirs is the first without guns in school. Just 30 years ago, high school kids rode the bus with rifles and shot their guns at high school rifle ranges.
After another school shooting, it’s time to ask: what changed?
Cross guns off the list of things that changed in thirty years. In 1985, semi-automatic rifles existed, and a semi-automatic rifle was used in Florida. Guns didn’t suddenly decide to visit mayhem on schools. Guns can’t decide.
High school gun range 1985. “Obey instantly all firing line commands.”We can also cross the Second Amendment off the list. It existed for over 200 years before this wickedness unfolded. Nothing changed in the Constitution.
That leaves us with some uncomfortable possibilities remaining. What has changed from thirty years ago when kids could take firearms into school responsibly and today might involve some difficult truths.
Let’s inventory the possibilities.
What changed? The mainstreaming of nihilism. Cultural decay. Chemicals. The deliberate destruction of moral backstops in the culture. A lost commonality of shared societal pressures to enforce right and wrong. And above all, simple, pure, evil.
Before you retort that we can’t account for the mentally ill, they existed forever.
Paranoid schizophrenics existed in 1888 and 2018. Mentally ill students weren’t showing up in schools with guns even three decades ago.
So it must be something else.
High school gun range.Those who have been so busy destroying the moral backstops in our culture won’t want to have this conversation. They’ll do what they do — mock the truth.
There was a time in America, before the Snowflakes, when any adult on the block could reprimand a neighborhood kid who was out of line without fear.
Even thirty years ago, the culture still had invisible restraints developed over centuries. Those restraints, those leveling commonalities, were the target of a half-century of attack by the freewheeling counterculture that has now become the dominant replacement culture.
Hollywood made fun of these restraints in films too numerous to list.
The sixties mantra “don’t trust anyone over thirty” has become a billion-dollar industry devoted to the child always being right — a sometimes deeply medicated brat who disrupts the classroom or escapes what used to be resolved with a paddling.
Instead of telling the kid to quit kicking the back of the seat, we buy seat guards to protect the seat.
High school gun range, 1984.If you think it’s bad now, just wait until the generation whose babysitter is an iPhone is in high school. You can hardly walk around WalMart these days without tripping over a toddler in a trance, staring at a screen.
Repeal all Gun Free Zones laws they just allow for the murders of more innocents
gun free zones are useless like the multiple “do not cross lines ” the radicalized muslin terrorist ex pres. painted on the sands for Syria.
Denigrating religious beliefs, being polite and following the rules puts society in peril. This particular shooting looks to be one that there was no possibility of preventing it; while Cruz showed himself to be a violent punk, there are lots of those and they don’t always turn into killers. Cruz tortured small animals, which is disturbing but not every kid that is cruel to animals shoots up a school. He was close to detection, but never quite went fully over the line. He had no parents to raise flags or get him help.
So, the way to try prevent this is to find and address what puts these concepts in anyone’s head and cure THAT. Unfortunately, what we will see is a phony-emotion driven assault on gun ownership and proposals which address no issues but the left’s drive towards civil disarmament which will be defeated because of its overreach.