“If you are a bad guy and come into our schools with a gun, or any other kind of weapon, with the intention of causing harm to our faculty or children, our Deputies will eliminate you immediately.” — Putnam County (TN) Sheriff Eddie Farris
Oh man, am I the only one who got the Warm & Fuzzies from reading that?
Likelihood of a school mass shooting in Putnam county: zero.
As timely as ever:
“The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which ‘we’, the clever ones, are going to impose upon ‘them’, the Lower Orders.”
— George Orwell
Corollary: “…and exile, punish or execute all those who refuse to accept the reforms.”
From Johnny Rotten, about Britishland’s Royal Family:
“A bunch of German tourists, with a Greek thrown in.”
I know several Brits who still refer to them as “the Germans”, with one saying witheringly: “My family has been noble for well over six centuries. Theirs hasn’t.”
From Elle Reynolds:
“Guns aren’t radically deadlier than they were 50 years ago, but our sick culture is.”
While humanity has been fallen since Eden, the past 50 years have seen countless indicators of exponential cultural decline, not the least of which have been falling marriage rates and skyrocketing numbers of children who are denied the chance to live with both their mother and father. We’re also seeing a pandemic of mental illness, which the years of mental angst and isolation caused by Covid school closures will certainly only worsen.
Americans are losing interest in the purpose and community that faith and church offer, losing respect for the sanctity of human life, and losing sight of the notion that a higher moral good exists than immediate self-gratification. Instead, we live under a cultural ethic that idolizes the indulgence of selfish desires even up to the point of taking the life of another.
Yup.
…and possibly for the ages, from Reader Preussenotto:
“Governmenting the problem only escalates the assholery.”
As any fule kno, I’m not into “verbing”; but I’ll certainly make an exception in this case.
After a bad experience while waxing her hoo-hah*, a Brit woman summarizes her experience:
“My fanny* looks like a bright pink newborn panda, but at least the hair is gone. So is my will to live and half the products in my bathroom, but at this point I’ll salvage a win wherever I can.”
Read the whole thing; it’s like a Mr. Bean episode.