I feel it has more to do with social issues than fear. We grew up either having to bust our behinds to feed and clothe our family or were raised by people who were not far removed from what is now considered farm life. Today it all comes from the store, where everything is sanitized for our enjoyment. No connection to the vicissitudes of life. City life has destroyed americans.
Most of the nation (land mass) was not privy to super markets, TV, electricity at the home, or sometimes indoor plumbing prior to WWII. City folks had all sorts of luxe goodies, but rural people worked hard, and were one step from starvation if it went wrong. They built their own homes, repaired what broke, made their own clothing and cooked from scratch what had been grown in the garden. Even some city people kept small livestock and had gardens if you had a single family home. Durring the economic fiasco of the 30's you were scraping by and happy to have heat and a meal for most of the populace. You knew somebody who had lost a family member to the Great War in some way, be it death, gas, or shell shock. You ate whatever nasty thing was on the plate because kids were starving in india, and hitler was taking over europe. Then we sent another Great Generation to defend liberty, and we prayed for their safe return. The children who came after those privations had it easy. Watch TV in your new suburban cookie cutter house and eat a Swansons dinner with no other worry than maybe the commies would nuke you. New cars, new homes, new movies and diversions to keep your mind off life and how hard it used to be. Your parents walked uphill both ways in the driving snow, up to their chest, to school and had to dig up roots to make stone soup for dinner. Now those are the stories being told to kids in China. We built up the cities, devastated the small farmers, paid the indolent to remain so, and are surprised that nobody values life. Guns rights people oppose abortion. Welfare pays you to have more children. Agribusiness peddles toxic foods while big Pharma makes more drugs to balance the equation of garbage in, cancer is good for business. There is no money in being healthy, but incredible amounts to be made in managing health with all sorts of alchemy and procedures to keep the bodies warm while the wallets are drained. Americans no longer build a nation, they pillage the carcass of industry, growing rich off of illusory wealth scams like Madoff or the housing bubble. Toss heaps of cash at vaporware tech firms that promise unlimited energy from imaginary solar or biofuels. Pump up financial firms that are no better than the Crimson Permanent Assurance. clay 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1972 220D - Gump - She is green, simple and ran 1995 E300D - Cleo - Used by the Queen of Denial POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers On Jan 21, 2013, at 1:11 PM, G Mann wrote: > Without going to any discussion about guns, period, let us look at the true > source of this young mans fear, how it was installed, who taught it to him, > where it came from. > > We have in our society today a culture that teaches children to be fearful. > In an older society, we were taught by example and entertainment [hollywood > movies of that era] that the land of the brave existed and we [society] > supported it. Our heros were men and women who did right and punished > wrong. > > Now? Please draw your own conclusions. > > Respectfully, > Grant... > -off to watch another episode of Lone Ranger- > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> wrote: > >> My wife was talking with a young woman this weekend, who has 2 young >> children. >> She was relating the fact that her son, who is 5 or 6 (I cannot recall >> which) is having nightmares because, every day at school, they are having >> drills on what to do if someone comes to the school with a gun. >> >> This strikes me as a bit over the top. The young fellow goes to school in >> Steinbach, Manitoba. Steinbach is a small town about 30 miles east of >> Winnipeg. >> I should think that the likelihood of someone showing up at the school >> with a gun is fairly remote. >> >> The young boy is truly afraid that something bad is going to happen at >> school. >> >> Randy >> >> ______________________________**_________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives >> http://www.okiebenz.com/**archive/<http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/**mailman/listinfo/mercedes_**okiebenz.com<http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
