When I was young in the early 70s, the courts started doing some very disturbing things. One of the disturbing things was that they not only allowed violent people to bring civil lawsuits against their victims but they even ruled in the criminal’s favor.
One case that I remember was a man that sexually assaulted a woman and she stabbed him in the eye with a hat pin. It probably was a California jury, but the idiots awarded the rapist a huge amount of money because he lost an eye while assaulting his victim. Another case was a gas station that was endlessly burglarized and the owner strung rows of fish hooks in the window and the thief lost an eye while trying to break in to steal from the gas station.
People started whining: “A child could have been hurt; we can’t let people make things so dangerous.” They did not say why a child would be climbing through a gas station window, but the “protect the thieves” and “protect the violent” crowd never give a good answer for their foolishness. They just react to their emotions, and make things worse. Then, the police started saying, “Don’t take the law into your own hands.” They actually were worried that the victim of a crime might hurt the one that was hurting the victim. Is it any wonder that this kind of thinking has progressed to school shootings and rioters burning down police stations?
As I have said in previous articles, if we do not understand how we got to where we are, we may make things worse, not better. We need to have the proper foundation for thought. Nothing proves this more than the government’s endless gun control obsession. The Republicans are afraid of the Democrats and the media demonizing them with the issue, and the Democrats are just emotionally pushing endless legislation. They give no thought to whether it will make things worse. We need to understand that school shootings happen because of what has been done, not because gun control needs to be done. They will never solve a problem with a problem.
We got to where we are today because the courts and law enforcement basically became OSHA for people who were stealing and violently harming others. If we look at the first law enforcement action against the first violent offender, it would be when Cain killed Able. Since the beginning of the world, God has said that it is wrong to harm people that are not harming people. You can summarize the second table of the Ten Commandments into: “Do not hurt innocent people.” If someone helps a person committing a crime, they are an accomplice. Being an accomplice is a crime.
When the courts and law enforcement started making it safe for people to hurt innocent people, they became accomplices. Instead of protecting the innocent, the government started protecting the violent criminals. Look where we are today. A school shooter is someone who feels safe hurting some of the most innocent and vulnerable people of our society. The government owns these schools and they make sure no decent person has a gun at the school. A gun in a good person’s hand can make it dangerous for an evil person to come and hurt innocent and vulnerable people. The reason they start screaming: “We need gun control” is to distract people from what they have done. The government is an accomplice to these crimes. The government has continually made it more difficult for good people to defend themselves from bad people. The examples are endless. So, I will skip the examples. Needless to say, if you protect yourself from a violent attacker, you may be charged with a crime. All these school shootings happen because the government wants schools to be a safe place for violent people.
We need to accept the fact that many prosecuting attorneys and judges care more about protecting, and therefore helping, the criminals than protecting and helping the innocent victims. If they are protecting criminals, the judges and prosecuting attorneys are criminals. Just because a law is not enforced does not mean a law has not been broken. History is full of examples of when the courts have committed atrocities.
Instead of being afraid and shaking in our boots, as the Republicans do every time there is a school shooting, we should be screaming at the government and media: “Look what you have done! How dare you! Why do you protect the violent school shooters instead of the innocent children?”
When people were protesting executing murderers, they never asked: “Did they actually kill an innocent person,” “Did they get a fair trial?” All that mattered was that the murderer did not suffer. The government did not care about the person who was harmed. The government only cared about the crime against the state. With priorities like this, I am only surprised there are not more school shootings.
When the government teaches children in the schools that innocent life does not matter, and that it should be safe for people who hurt innocent people, this is what you get. If that is what the schools are going to teach, then the schools need to be shut down. If we continue to allow the schools to do this, we become accomplices as well. Our silence is the beginning of the crime. Our fear is their power. Anyone who is afraid of a leftist media lunatic speaking poorly of them, is a poor excuse for a human being. These appeasing, political cowards are as much to blame as the “protect the criminal,” gun control politicians. The problem is us because we allow this.
If you stay stuck on, no one will do what must be done. Instead, you are the one who must do what must be done. You will never realize that everyone doing what must be done, starts with one person doing what must be done. That one person is you and yes, that one person is me, and it will turn into “We.”
