Gun Control??? Why???

Okay, I guess I have to have this rant just so I don't blow-up at someone. I think I have made it clear that I am not what people would call a conservative or a liberal, but I made a comment about the shooting in Northern California the other day and people went off saying guns need to be outlawed and all the normal rhetoric. I can deal with that that is going to happen because people are opinionated and many feel that their opinions are the only valid ones. However, now that this has played out more what I find interesting is what was discovered about the weapons he used in this 'spree'... "The shooter illegally manufactured guns he used Tuesday, officials said. Handguns police recovered were not registered to him" (CNN). Now isn't that interesting. You are going to take guns from people but anyone with half a brain can checkout a library book on how to make one and how to make the bullets. It is not Nuclear Physics. It is not the guns that need to go it is a better approach to letting them be out there. People need to be progressive, proactive, and come up with valid complaints and also valid and feasible solutions.

Schools need to go back to teaching!!!

In a world of terrorism, famine, pestilence, political corruption, & just plain sloth the mere fact that a 15 year boy would wear a religious symbol in honor of their grandparent should be praised and recognised as courageous in this time and day. In a world where religions have come into direct conflict and blood is spilled once again because of a persons faith the mere act of showing support for someone is amazing.

While gangs maybe 'coopting' religious symbols this does not mean that the symbols are any less important to devote members of the faith. It seems to me that we are letting crime and so-called gangs run our schools, when the schools and by extension parents & politicians should be focusing on what is truly important to our next generation, education.

 We have taken our schools and by extension neighborhoods down to the lowest common denominator. We sit here and gripe about how all is wrong with the world but do nothing about it. We decry government involvement into our lives then bitch and moan when they don't come to our aid the way we think they should.

Part of the problem I have with the school districts and there so called "dress code" is that they don't take into account the person who is wearing the clothes or article. I mean California does not allow the wearing of blue, red, Oakland Raiders, & the like clothing because they could be associated with gangs such as the Crips and the Bloods, but what of the kid who has grown up watching the Raiders play and just wears the jersey to school on Monday simply to show support for their team on Monday Night Football.

In one district in Texas the dress code actually states that girls can not wear "halter tops, sleeveless shirts, or shorts that are too short. However, think about Texas in early June, 100 degrees and high humidity and the school district that can not pay for teachers, books, class supplies, & A/C expect these kids to wear hotter than hell clothing simply because some bureaucrat is afraid of what some boy might be thinking. Well is that not what school is for to make the young begin thinking. Thinking is not bad the acting on the thoughts is what could be bad and educating our young is supposed to teach them what is right and what is wrong, but how can we do that if we hamstring the kids, teachers, and even parents with bureaucracy.

We are a nation of "have our cake and eat it too". We go through our lives just watching the injustice in the system the inherent design flaws within it but honestly do nothing about them. We see the hungry, the ill, & the forgotten and we just think "oh someone must do something, just so long as it does not take from me, and if we do do something to help these underprivileged then we want, as Jay Leno put it, everyone to know the great work we are doing anonymously. I this respect we are truly more recognisable as a society based on Marie Antoinette, as many feel that just giving them a monetary donation will help however anyone who knows will tell you that while having the money available is good having the people and materials to fix the problems would be better.

It is people like the young man that brought this blog to light simply for wearing a Rosary are the most likely to help fix and even better this society. Those who think "Oh the government should be the fix then they have not studied history and do not understand what they see, they believe the hype, the media, & the spin more than the record and the seen from their own eyes.