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Thoughts on the Nashville Shooting from a retired DIA analyst, historian, author, and old friend
I wish to offer the following observation to your Letters to the Edito on the 27 March ’23 article:, "Poll Shows Shift in What Americans Value": The decline of American values ("Poll Shows Shift in What Americans Value" (WSJ 27 Mar ’03) is best seen in the appalling occurrence of mass shootings, but we address only its symptoms and not origins. I offer the following perspective of my 75 years and of a historian and former analyst of the Soviet Union to explain what has brought us to his state. When I was growing up we were a well-armed country, but these slaughters just did not happen. What has happened between then and now? Every society develops means to keep at bay the demons that lurk malevolently in human nature. Those means are the conscience and moral values instilled by religion, strong families and communities, wholesome national traditions, and customs. Religion is the key. The Founding Fathers believed that only a moral people informed by religion could sustain a democracy. That fraying of our society and democracy is evidence of the decline of those means to control the demons. The latest example is the shooting at a Christian school in Tennessee. What then has loosened the demons? We need only look at the policies of the left to assault religion, to unravel the family and community, to lower cultural norms of decency, to encourage drug use, and to denigrate our unifying history and its traditions. The left has embraced the assault on the natural organization of the human race by erasing the difference between men and women. Worst of all it has embraced the profound evil of the mutilation of children in the cause of this erasure, no different than the cruelties of Dr. Mengele. Even the Bolsheviks at their blood-thirsty worst never descended to this level of madness. Scripture inveighs against those who destroy the innocence of children stating it would be better is such people had never been born. We cannot control these demons unless we understand what has unleashed them. Posted by: Besoeker 2023-03-29 |
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