The hand-wringing of the media is especially galling to me. Whenever I see the crocodile tears of these hypocrites I think of the excitement behind the scenes as they tot up the impact of such a "good story" on their ratings. These are the same folks who carry water for Planned Parenthood and twirl like dervishes to put the politically correct stamp on their liberal spin. They camp out on the doorsteps of the victims' families to cash in on the human interest angle and keep the story going. Oh how they care! Just think...a Pulitzer may be in their futures. I can't even watch the news today.
When a country sows the wind, it reaps the whirlwind. And the whirlwind doesn't measure the guilt or innocence of those in its path. I'm praying my rosary today for all those caught up in the whirlwind in Colorado and asking St. Michael the Archangel to protect us all from random violence. And may God have mercy on the killer.
The real hypocrisy here is that they will use these shootings in Colorado to spin up gun-control when if there had been one or two persons with concealed carry in the theater the shooter would never have gotten off so many rounds.
ReplyDeleteAn unarmed citizenry is a slave population, slave to the whims of the state. The Founders knew this and that's why there is a second amendment.
The media and the government are full of hypocrites who say one thing and do another.
Exactly, Mary Anne. I am a 69 yearr old woman snd such things as this did not happen in this country before Roe vs Wade when abortion was illegal, and plenty of guns were around, but people used them mainly for the right purposes hunting for meat that they ate or protecting their family's from aggressors. Yes, accidents sometimes happened from people and parents not being careful enough to teach there children and properly supervise any guns use (and those things do need to be addressed) but nothing like what happened in this theatre. It seems that in a once fairly safe nation, no one is safe any more any place, including in the womb of his or her own mother. Most of these super mass murderers, if not all, were born AFTER Roe vs Wade also. It certainly does not give anyone the right to be judge, jury and executioner of mass numbers of people, or anyone for that matter, but it does show the mentality Roe vs Wade helped produce.
ReplyDeleteThis 69 year old would also like to add to my last post that we should be praying for the men and women who are trying to defuse the situaion in the perpetrators apartment, that none of them are injured nor that the apartment blow up. Pray for the safety of all, along with the enlightenment and conversion of all concerning abortion.
ReplyDeleteThe elephant in the room! Pornography. No one is willing to look at this in our promiscuous society.
ReplyDeleteTim Staples pointed out at a talk I attended that he believed that the objectification of women in accepted pornography (Playboy magazine started in the 50's) directly led to the objectification of unborn babies in the 60's and early 70's in accepted abortion (remember other countries legalized abortion earlier than the U.S.).
I always remember that St. Maria Goretti's violent killer had pornography all over his walls. I do think that if a study was conducted you would find addiction to pornography (combined with a loner mentality) a common factor in these mass murderer's profiles.
Thank you for this post. I enjoy reading your insights. The darkness of our culture keeps many from seeing the evil right in front of us EVERYDAY at the abortion mills. BTW.... have you commented on the recent oath that Catechists must sign in the Arlington diocese? I'm surprised how many volunteer teachers at my parish are having a problem with this. :(
ReplyDeleteIt is baffling. Similarly baffling is the angst that occurred over 1 convicted killer who was slated to be executed in Maryland. The bishops issued statements, there were candlelight vigils, the media went on and on.. Yet nary a peep is uttered about the 95+ innocents who die in MD every day from abortion.
ReplyDeleteI think one of the worst things to happen to this country was 24/7 news channels. They almost have to keep the "pot stirred" to keep in business.
ReplyDeleteSo far the jounalist, although she did quote Ann Rand a lot, who hit the nail on the head, though she did not mention abortion specifically, was Liz Trotta of Fox News. She put the blame on the moking of religion in this country and a lack of adherence to basic principles. She spoke about the govenment trying to silence the Catholic Church and make it go against its principles. She said that vampirism is more popular in our culture (because of the movies of course) than the Cross. She asked why would anyone take a six-year old to such a movie (The Rise of the Dark Knight) in the first place which is a good question. Why would they? I remember when my daughter and I went to a movie that she said would be all right for her nephew, my grandson. It was not, so I insisted on going across the isle of the theatre to a movie that was more appropriate for him, and quite frankly, for us adults too. In the past I took back a tape of a singer when I found it was inappropriate when I got it home becuase of the swearing used in the concert. The manager exchanged it for me. I also rented a movie one time and did not play it when I found out it had an inappropriate scene in it. I took it back to the store, told the manager the truth, and he exchanged it for another one. We need to do those things, and if enough of us do them, maybe Hollywood and the music industry will get the idea that people really do not want this stuff. You can ask for your money back at a theatre, too, if you refuse to sit through an inappropriate movie that was not labeled correctly. Don't put up with it people. Don't put up with it, and we will have far less of these mass murder. God will be our shield because we have become godly.
ReplyDeleteCharles Stalkweather and Charles Joseph Whitman both did their killing before Roe.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the perspective, Dymphna.
ReplyDeleteFree will has always been abused since Adam and Eve rebelled in the garden and Cain killed Abel. But the level of violence has increased astronomically since the early 20th century and the downward spiral seems to be a tailspin at this point. It would be interesting to develop a comprehensive timeline of mass murders and see what it looks like. Here's one up to 2007, not sure how complete it is. http://www.alamongordo.com/timeline_mass_murders.html
Demphna, I am sorry you disagree, but there were never lock downs in public schools before the 1970s, and I went to school in a very multi-racial area in California -- working class. The sexual revolution came with a multitude of different types of crime, including illegal drugs. In the same town I was raised in a teacher was shot on the playground trying to defend her students when a gunman sprayed the playground with bullets. An Asian-Anerican teacher was beat up in that same city. I am sorry but I think a general lack of respect for human life has increased and is the cause of most of it, along with widespread abortion. I agree with Mary Anne.
ReplyDeleteRegarding my last post at 1:07am, a caucasian female teacher was also beaten in that same town, too, all of these after the 1970s.
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