When will the lessons of history be learned?

When will the lessons of history be learned? Why do we have to be reminded over and over? Someone once said, “There aren’t really any different things being done under the sun, just the same old things being done by different people.” Some, mostly with liberal beliefs, have apparently forgotten the saying “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”.

Is it surprising that when you tie the hands of the police, those you have chosen to protect you from lawbreakers, you are preyed upon by those with no respect for the law? Is it surprising that if you allow your legislators to “loosen” the laws because of a false belief in “equity” and forget the victims, the criminals will take advantage? Doesn’t nature abhor a vacuum? Even some so- called conservatives abandon their principles to go along with the latest fad.

History has shown that people only react when a situation affects them directly. Why do those who want to “defund” the police and ease up on the enforcement of some laws then become the loudest complainers when the expected results occur?

When the immigration laws aren’t enforced and people flow unhindered across our border why aren’t they sent into the neighborhoods of the people who supported that policy? If that occurred it would cease immediately. In other words, for every action there is a reaction and that reaction should be imposed on those who support the policy. We would have less experimenting at other’s expense.

Sadly, we have now had another mass shooting, on all days the day set aside for the celebration of the freedoms we enjoy. Once again, some will claim the weapon is the enemy, so they can argue that we can be free from our responsibility for the incident. The question that has to be answered is not what should be done about the guns but what are we doing in the raising of our young boys that some who are so angry or mentally ill as young men of 18 to 25 year old they turn into evil monsters willing to take up a gun and commit mass murder.? Rarely it is a female who engages in such indiscriminate behavior.

Is it because of the absence of religious principles on which our country was founded? Is it because of the breakup of the family? Is it because people are fed garbage on social media, in movies, and violent games and expect the mind not to be affect by it? Computer system designers remind us of the phrase in their discipline that “garbage in, garbage out” (GIGO). In other words, if you feed anything garbage, especially the mind, how can you expect the resulting thoughts and actions to be something other than garbage thoughts and actions? Do you remember the quote “good works produce good thoughts, and bad works produce bad thoughts? Didn’t these quotes result from the experience of humankind? Do we think we are so intelligent that we can disregard them? We do so at our own peril. When are we going to awaken to the real reason for these tragedies and truly do something effective other than consider the empty promises and ineffective actions suggested by politicians?

If you want to change the present situation, pay attention and remove those public officials who are not truly representing you. Get your face out of your “smart” phone, get out of your easy chair or off the couch and do something! Don’t just accept it, complain or wring your hands with a false pretense that you actually care. The next shooting might injure or cause death to one of your loved ones or someone you know and you will wish you had acted.

The solution is up to you, it is not the responsibility of someone else to act. You live in a republic. Remember words of the flag salute - “The republic for which it stands”. Is it worth standing up for? The decision is yours.