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A Trend??
By Mona Lease
Hi, all!! The following is more of my conjecture...more of my wondering.
So...students in Florida are calling on politicians to enact stricter
laws concerning buying guns. Why? Rumors include Oprah donating
millions to this cause.
In Darke County, a young Mother has a daughter and is married to the
Father. They got into an argument in a park. He slapped her
open-handed. The Police were called. He was cited...domestic violence.
He was court-ordered to go to a live-in rehabilitation program for four
months. The girl waited for him. Why? They are now together as a family.
A young guy that lives out of Ohio told me that he is waiting for the
Mother of his young daughter to straighten out her life. Why?
These can not be the only incidents where young people do not want to
break up a family or turn to violence (as it were) to solve a problem.
Let me elaborate. In the case of the Florida school shootings on
February 14th...Valentine's Day...by the way. Why are the students
calling for stricter gun laws and not more gun-toting security guards?
Since there were armed security guards...just not enough of them
(seemingly)...it looks to me like the logical answer would have been to
double or maybe treble the security. But they did not do that.
Interesting choice by the kiddies...to me!
As for the Darke County girl electing to try to keep her family
together...to work through her husband's issues...interesting! In a
world that is yelling, "divorce him - take him for all you can - he was
wrong to hit you"...she chose to try. Why? (And he was wrong to hit
her.)
As for the out-of-state gentleman...he is trying to do the same thing.
These two young people are seven years apart in age. The young male
says his daughter (1 1/2 years old) does not deserve to ride around in
a car all day while the Mother conducts her business. The young Darke
County girl wants her daughter (2/12 years old) to have a home with
both parents in it as a way of life.
These two young adults can not be the only ones that are looking for an
answer that does not have to do with money...can they?
Have the kiddies/young adults really been paying attention...to our
world...to our responses to this world as adults?
Have these same kiddies/young adults watched our Presidential Elections
that were reportedly "rigged"...with no one being held responsible for
it?
Did they pay attention to all of the verbal abuse that was printed in
newspapers around the world and in newspapers in Darke County?
Did these same kiddies/young adults watch the NFL boycott this year
(2018)...knowing that the boycott was not going to stop anything...that
people around the world bet on the Super Bowl?
Have these self-same kiddies/young adults watched the physical
violence, too?
Do they see that law enforcement officers are only allowed to carry the
weapon they are issued and someone walking into a school with a smoking
gun is probably armed with a more powerful weapon?
Do these kiddies/young adults see that a bigger weapon and a bigger
weapon and a bigger weapon...isn't the answer? Do the kiddies/young
adults see that we've done this around the world (North Korea, illegal
nuclear arms possession/testing) and it solved nothing?The
possession/testing continues.
Do the kiddies/young adults see that if we keep shooting...soon there
will be nothing left to shoot at...and no one left to do the shooting?
Do the kiddies/young adults see that at some point...someone has to
say, "This isn't working anymore. We need to try something else." Are
we...as a society...at that point?
Are the above-mentioned incidents with the young girl and the young guy
really letting us know that we need to put down the weapons and get
back to being a real family?
Or...is it just me?
Remember the kiddies and our service people. Take good care of the
furry and feathered ones out there. Be safe and healthy. See ya next
time. Ever Toodles!! MONA
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