"This is what happens when you teach kids that their feelings are
more important than rational thought. Our feelings are very
volatile things. They can sway from one extreme to another for
many reasons. When you teach kids that it is alright to act on
these feelings, they can do things without thinking about the
act or the consequences.

You can take away as many guns as you want, it will not change
the way some people think. If they cannot use a gun they will
use a knife. If they cannot use a knife they will use a hammer.
If they want to kill lots of people and don't have a gun they
will use a bomb. If they cannot get a bomb they will use a
vehicle. If they cannot use a vehicle they will use an
airplane. There is always something else they can use to act
out on their impulses.


One of the defining characteristics of leftists (and perhaps some
liberals) is that they are governed by their emotions.

As usual, the media avoid any analysis of the upbringing and medical
history (if any) of the shooter, because the media is leftist and to the
left it's not about the individual. It never is. Personal
responsibility and self control is a vague concept for the leftist (and
for children). It's the cornerstone of life for those on the right.

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You Cannot Legislate Morality

Sat, 08/17/2019 - 19:20

Authored by Tom Chatham via Project Chesapeake blog

It's the same thing every time we have a mass shooting in America.

Before the shell casings have time to cool the same people are calling
for more gun control. Their solution for mass killings is to disarm all
of the law abiding citizens so everyone can feel better about themselves
thinking they did something. The problem is that taking guns away from
law abiding people does not change the way potentially dangerous people
feel. If they want to hurt someone, they will find a way.

When these things happen we immediately see new legislation to try to
curb the ability of people to commit these types of crimes. New red flag
laws are one of the things being pushed today as a cure all. The idea is
to identify people who might pose a threat to society and take away
their guns before they can do something. The problem is that laws such
as this only apply to certain people in practice. Are police officers,
government agents and certain politicians going to be relieved of their
weapons if they are accused of being a threat by someone? I seriously
doubt it. These types of laws are only to disarm those the government
wants to disarm.

The other problem is that Congress can pass any laws that it wants to
but any law that is repugnant to the Constitution is automatically null
and void. They have no legal authority to enforce it and citizens have
no legal obligation to obey it, and this does not even take into account
the due process issues.

Guns have been available in this country since it was founded. They were
even easier to get 40 or 50 years ago than they are today. The basic gun
itself has not changed that much in the past half century. So why have
we suddenly been inundated with mass shootings over the past 30 years?

If the weapons are no different and no more available than 50 years ago
then we need to look somewhere else. We need to look at the mental state
of the shooter himself. Why did he do it? When a mass shooting has
occurred it just did not happen all of a sudden. In most cases it was
planned for weeks or even months before the act was committed.

When a person decides to commit a crime such as this he has some deep
seated reason for it. It may not be a good reason but he has a reason.
When a person has reached a point where they have no concern for the
lives of others, we have to question their morality. Thousands of people
walk around every day in this country carrying a gun without shooting
anyone. So why does one person out of these thousands decide to kill
people? At some point they have been led to believe it is alright. They
have been instilled with the belief that it is justified according to
the way they feel.

A persons belief system determines if they are willing to harm another
person and under what conditions they are willing to do so. The lower a
persons ethics and morality are, the quicker they are willing to do bad
things. A persons ethics and morality are learned qualities they gather
from those around them and from the places they are educated. Unless a
person is a born sociopath, they learn to hurt others from people who
think it is alright.

If one wanted to argue the issue they could probably make the case that
our learning institutions are at least partially to blame for the
shootings we now have to deal with. Universities are now actively
teaching kids that they should physically attack those that have a
different view than they do. Conservatives are now openly attacked on
campuses and in the streets across the country. Schools are actively
promoting degeneracy to young impressionable children.

This is what happens when you teach kids that their feelings are more
important than rational thought. Our feelings are very volatile things.
They can sway from one extreme to another for many reasons. When you
teach kids that it is alright to act on these feelings, they can do
things without thinking about the act or the consequences.

You can take away as many guns as you want, it will not change the way
some people think. If they cannot use a gun they will use a knife. If
they cannot use a knife they will use a hammer. If they want to kill
lots of people and don't have a gun they will use a bomb. If they cannot
get a bomb they will use a vehicle. If they cannot use a vehicle they
will use an airplane. There is always something else they can use to act
out on their impulses.

Until we once again teach kids the difference between right and wrong,
we will continue to see acts of violence in society. The days when
people respected one another and restrained their more violent feelings
because they understood the consequences, are in our past. Until we
regain some sense of ethics and morality in society this will not end.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-...slate-morality