Mike Rowe On Guns In Schools
BY Herschel Smith
6 years, 10 months ago
TV host Mike Rowe likes to illustrate how attitudes have changed over the years by recalling the time he and a classmate brought a gun to his high school in Baltimore — not just any gun, but a sniper rifle.
The principal was impressed with the firearm and their plans to tinker with it in metal shop, he said.
“He said, ‘Bring it by the office when you’re done. I’d love to look at it when you’re finished,’” Mr. Rowe recalled. “That’s 1979 or 1980. Where I grew up, we saw the guns in the back of the truck. They were there in the gun racks in the high school parking lot.”
“I think most things are down to mental health. I think a lot of giant issues get missed because we confuse the cause with the symptom,” he said, adding that the basic issue behind shootings is “terrible judgment.”
After properly and correctly observing that the culture and morals of the country have changed for the worse, Mike then proceeds to unravel his whole argument. I’ve often said that if you want to truly understand what you think the root cause of something is, pose your remedy to ameliorate the condition. Then you’ll be able to backtrack to your real problem.
Mike’s problem is that he feels that there are mental health issues, and I guess he wants a gigantic psychiatric program run nation-wide to figure out who is the one who will make “terrible judgments.”
Not one word about evil, sin, moral choices or a country that has rejected God. Because apparently he doesn’t believe in such things.
You can keep your gun-control psychiatrists, Mike. I don’t want them or need them.
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On January 30, 2018 at 11:46 am, Gryphon said:
I graduated from High School in ’77, we had lots of Rifles coming in to the Metal Shop, mostly old Springfields and Mausers, to be re-barreled to .308 and Drilled for Scope Mounts. I understood the Bridgeport Mill better than the Teacher, so I was the Go-To Kid for a lot of that.
We had a Rifle Club, too, .22 Precision Bolt-Guns, once a Week the Activity Bus after school went to the Police Department Range with 15-20 Kids.
On January 30, 2018 at 7:52 pm, Bill Robbins said:
Gryphon: Imagine that! Kids in the Rifle Club taking the school bus to the PD range to shoot .22 rifles in a supervised, safe (relatively), responsible (relatively) environment. Now, instead of spending quality time together at the PD range, the kids get shot after school and go to the morgue.Yet, there are people in this world who think that today’s arrangement is better than back in ’77.
On January 31, 2018 at 7:40 am, Talktome said:
I’m wondering if Mr. Rowe just rolls up evil, twisted types into the same category as mental health problems? Some people just don’t understand, or maybe accept is more accurate, that there is true evil in this world, people who will follow the adversary, both knowingly (satanists as an example) and unknowingly, as are some religions that try and equate their god with the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob.