Overturning Roe vs. Wade will simply criminalize abortion, drive it back underground where it is much more unsafe, and do nothing to curb the rate. Abortion rates were actually higher per capita pre Roe vs. Wade than post.
Regarding safe gun policies, I agree that what is on the books isn’t enforced but needs to be, particularly in major urban areas run by Democrats. What is happening in major American cities is a huge failure.
With that said, we are talking about mass shootings, an epidemic of them. School shootings, houses of worship, theaters. Many are happening outside of major urban areas. Twenty have occurred since Uvalde…in just a couple of weeks! Many are in red states, the same that clamor for right to life. Whose rights and whose lives?? That’s the question.
We have a culture of God and guns in many of those states. Unfettered access to high powered weaponry is the norm. Put that together with the complex of young men with social and emotional pathology, and we have the toxic results we’ve bargained for. All in the name of second amendment rights. It’s a total distortion of the amendment’s intention.
The next twenty five developed nations in the world have the same types of social and family issues. Their people have the same access to violent entertainment and video games. They don’t have nearly the rate of mass homicides and massacres, and overall gun homicides that we do. A small fraction combined when compared to the U.S. What is the main difference? They have progressive policies concerning gun ownership, registration, and the banning of assault weapons, with no loss of other individual rights and freedoms.
Canada has had three mass shootings since 1997, the year of Columbine. The U.S…200! Australia instituted a gun buyback program in 1994, after several years of mass shootings. They have had zero incidents of such since. Zero in twenty eight years! Change is possible.
It’s sad to say that what stands in the way of progress and change for the right to life for all of us here is fifty Republican senators who advocate for the unborn, but could give two hoots about the rest of our lives once we’re out of the womb. Fifty, like Ted Cruz, who are either bought by NRA campaign dollars, fear their gun owning bases, or both. Power, money and corruption are in the way.
I had to endure a school lockdown this week. Silently in a room filled with elementary school children. We are forty five minutes from Newtown. Thankfully, the intruder was unarmed. After Uvalde and countless other massacres like that and Newtown, and Parkland, and Columbine over the past decades, that was not the first assumption. It’s pathetic that this is where our nation is, and what our cultural expectations are now. And that we have corrupt leaders who won’t do anything about it. It’s not about supporting one party over another. It’s targeting the inhumane policies and inaction of one, that claims to be pro life. They aren’t. They are hypocrites. SDAs who align with that? What can one say? Stay away from party alignment and evaluate stances on issues. Somehow, it’s what Jesus seemed to do in his day. Neither liberals or conservatives escaped his rebukes when they went off the beam.
The bottom line with this issue, where there is a will there is a way. We have politicians who don’t seem to have the will. It needs to somehow be given to them…radically. And, do we have it as a nation to support real change…or will we keep accepting the sacrifice of our children and innocent people as an acceptable trade off for present gun rights?
Frank
