BY Herschel Smith
6 years, 9 months ago
The Washington Times:
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.
“We walked in the school, had the gun over my shoulder, walking down a crowded hall and the principal saw me and said, ‘Hey, what do you have there?’ And I handed it to him and said, ‘It’s a Mauser. Check it out. It’s an old German sniper rifle,’” Mr. Rowe said.
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.
