School Shootings
The massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School will invigorate the legislative efforts of gun control enthusiasts and legal activists as the limited myopic view of Western thought focuses on effects but neglects to explore the causes.
To put the slayings at Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, and Sandy Hook in another perspective I reflect on the socio-economic conditions of my childhood, born a couple months after the Great Depression began, raised in a poor ethnic neighborhood at a time of great unemployment and with few laws as compared to today, organized crime flourishing, an absence of surveillance cameras or security guards at the schools, no restrictions on the purchase of hand guns or hunting rifles, and no massacres in the school system or any other institutions.
The conditions of my youth comprise the mainstay of arguments for gun control activists: insufficient security, lack of punitive laws, poverty, and availability of firearms. Why, with all these conditions existing in the 1930’s did we not have violence in our institutions? Why was the incarceration rate a fraction of what it is today? What was different?
There were two basic differences emanating from one fundamental source.
The children of the 1930’s were raised in safe and secure homes, feeling a sense of belonging, of being loved and nurtured, knowing that no matter what problems may arise mom and dad were there to cope with things. More than mom and dad there were other family members, aunts and uncles, cousins, and maybe grandparents, who would provide solace, advice, and security. In the absence of family there were close neighbors who were respected and who had a sense of responsibility for children.
These children also received training in moral values and consideration for others. They were taught to be respectful, obedient, courteous, considerate, responsible, reliable, and trustworthy, to name but a few of many characteristics necessary for the well-being of the family, tribe, and race.
These two basic differences—being nurtured and taught moral values—emanate from the family environment. Women bring life into the world and nurture it; men provide the means and environment for that activity to take place as all members proceed on their spiritual journey.
The family has been destroyed in the Western world and along with it the source of values conducive for safe and secure environments necessary for the proper functioning and development of its inhabitants.
The youth that commit these crimes are lonely, insecure, unfocused, confused, and suffer from angst. They have not been adequately nurtured or guided. Government cannot effectively replace family and laws cannot effectively replace ethics.
Ethics come from men who realize their responsibility is to provide the environment and means for women to bring forth life and nurture it as humankind progress on its spiritual journey. Ethics do not come from anywhere else.
I had ended this essay at this point and sent it to various people whom I thought it would interest; however, the frenzy of grossly materialistic solutions being offered by Western thought and disseminated by the media has motivated me to briefly address these solutions.
One the one hand the liberal feminine approach calls for more security measures and laws to provide the safe and secure environment that women need to function in. On the other hand the conservative masculine approach (within the feminine Western psyche) calls for having more hand guns, even supplying them to teachers so they can defend themselves. Both sides dealing with what can be seen (the Western feminine materialistic approach) and neither side addressing the unseen—ethics and the moral behavior that results from ethical standards.
A third influence consists of religious zealots, regardless of their denomination, who use their spiritual texts as rule books instead of as spiritual training guides, their objective being to control the behavior of people rather than to enlighten them and motivate them to a higher standard of spiritual living.
We send drones blowing up people all over the world (most of the victims innocent non-combatants), brag about killing top leaders of those who oppose us and televise the actual happening, provide video games focusing on blowing up people, promote professional contact sports that mutilate its participants, and consider it progress for women when they can engage in boxing and wrestling, damaging and mutating bodies designed to carry the future of the race.
We have created the conditions for the massacre in our schools. No institution is safe. Psalm 9 states: nations have plunged into a pit of their own making……the wicked man is trapped in his own devices.
We have taken men out of the home, destroyed the family, created an immoral materialistic state whose subjects consider it to be omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient; and love it that way. Unfortunately for them the God of materialism is imploding.
When the government has completely collapsed society will do what Isaiah had forecast: we will rebuild on the old foundations.
E.G.
