(Yes, this is long, as many of my commentaries are. Deal with it.)
My last update was about how proper security could have prevented things like Sandy Hook, My sister has brought up a good point that I will elaborate on. I believe one of my other updates addressed the issue, but maybe just indirectly. What american children lack far more than security in school is proper education. If schools were properly funded, children educated and had the values of life and the ideals that this nation once held high, and claims to still hold dear, instilled in them, values such as honesty, integrity, loyalty, honor, respect, service, tolerance, equality and many others, then maybe elevated levels of security and weapon bans will be irrelevant once again.
The sad truth is that people would rather satiate their cognitive dissonance and stay in their comfort zones instead of addressing the real issues of society. The problem isn't godlessness, it's ignorance and it's laziness. Parents have stopped being parents. (Although not all. I'm glad to know that my nephew values life and knows the difference between reality and video games.) It's sad when people want to ban video games because their too lazy to be parents. Sure we can blame it on the schools for not teaching things like fine arts, but that's ultimately on us also because we don't want to pay for it. Certain people would cut funding for PBS. When I was a child, we frequently watched things from PBS as lessons. One of the best lessons I've seen, though I already knew it, was from PBS in a COLLEGE Psych class. Not elementary, not jr. high or high school, but college. (I will include a link to it at the end, I suggest everyone watch it.) If PBS' material is good enough for college, it's good enough for kids, but no, we must cut that while we spend 3/4 of a TRILLION dollars on defense spending.
We live in a day and age when popular music is about sex, drugs and violence or is so devoid of artistic content, it's a wonder how it passes for music. Before we had artists like Simon and Garfunkle who had songs like "The Boxer", John Lennon with "Imagine", yet today we have an androgynous singer who's popularity is based on songs like "Baby" which is of absolutely no lyrical value. People wonder where our morals, ethics and ideals go...they left with our Music and artists. Fascists didn't ban creative artistic expression for the fun of it. A society's soul lies within it's artists.
When did we stop teaching our children to value life. Not just life as in human/animal life, But to value living — You know, the aspects of life that make us smile. To value the warmth of the sun, the singing of the birds, the smell of a fresh rainfall, the crispness of a cold winter morning or even the sparkle in a strangers eye as they walk past? Never have I know anyone who values both life and living to ever needlessly take the life of another living creature; human or not.
The link I mentioned previously. Watch it, if you aren't cold hearted and racist it will move you; if you are, I hope it changes you. (granted if you fall into the latter group, we aren't friends on here and you won't see it. Eh well)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/
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