Surrender
In December of 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a very deranged 20-year-old man shot and killed 26 people, including 20 young children who were between six and seven years old. In the aftermath of the shooting, repeated calls for better gun control were mostly ignored and laws that were proposed to limit the sale and ownership of semi-automatic weapons were blocked by the NRA and members of congress, and 10 states actually passed laws that relaxed weapons restrictions. In essence, a small minority of people in this country decided that killing little children was okay, according to their constitutional right to bear arms.
Fast-forward to the beginning of May, 2020, small groups of gun-toting terrorists demonstrating in various states and even invading state capitols demand the end of a serious pandemic quarantine and social-distancing practices in order for people to get haircuts, manicures and go to the gym. Government studies indicate that the spread of the Coronavirus will increase and deaths could double from current levels in a matter of months due to an early lifting of these practices. Again a small group of people and politicians have been convinced that it does not matter how many people die a terrible death, but that it is much more important for 1% of the population to make as much money as they can. (My sincere apologies for those who have lost their jobs and their livelihood. We have been severely impacted and it may change our lives and not for the good by the end of the year, even with our health intact.) Most of the states here in the U.S. have started opening back up for business, the pandemic is no longer a problem in their eyes. Even if more people die then already have, I firmly believe that there will not be another quarantine, no matter what. The deaths will have become acceptable.
As a young child, I was raised Catholic, and along with all the rules and morals therein, I was instilled with a very healthy respect for the sanctity of life. And there is that pesky Commandment that says, thou shall not kill. Apparently all of these good Christian people missed out on the details of that one. It didn’t say thou shall not kill some of the people some of the time, but that you shouldn’t kill anyone in any possible way, all of the time. But hey, who’s counting, they didn’t directly kill anyone and probably some of them didn’t really spread the disease around, but you can see in their eyes that the desire to kill something is very much on their minds. Otherwise why arm yourself to the teeth and threaten others, are they hoping for a big shoot-out with the virus? Or perhaps to get rid of their elected representatives with whom they don’t agree? And why are so many of them wearing masks if there is no such thing as the Coronavirus? Oh well, not my circus and most certainly, not my monkeys.
(In full disclosure, I do own a small rifle, I have had it out twice in the last 30 years to look at it, trying to figure out how it works. It is, after all, my second amendment right. And if the Coronavirus shows up on my doorstep, I will be ready to take it down, if I can find that box of ammunition.)
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