re Chesapeake, Virginia

Troy MI

Description

It is an understatement that America is desensitized to gun violence. Since the era of motion pictures, we have been socialized as children to believe the man with the gun is the hero, and always comes out on top. We are bombarded with giant screen images of men solving problems of revenge by mowing people down. Somehow, we get the message that America is an unsafe place to live. How many children even see motion picture images of the Amish and Quakers who are pacifists and have the lowest homicide rate on the planet? But of course, that doesn't sell, does it? We have seen 50 people slaughtered. Children mowed down. Nothing moves us. I have lost faith that anything will in my lifetime. When I was a young man, I read an anthropological thesis in which the author believed war and gun carnage was a population control, evolutionary strategy. I have read myths of a blessed time when warfare and violence cease. But now, we chose to live in fear and mistrust. Never mind we will not love one another. We can't even stop killing one another. The answer is obvious, but unpalatable to most people. Pray for peace. One very weary old man's opinion only.