Everyone's all atwitter, literally, about the shooting in Parkland, Florida several weeks ago that left 17 people dead. Nationwide, students in high schools, and even those in younger grades including elementary schools, are walking out or staying home, postponing their education to gather together and wave signs with the message, "NO MORE GUNS!" They are demanding that the government, of all things, take care of this problem, as if the lack of legal access to guns will stop anyone with murder as a goal. Besides, while anger and hatred are rampant in America, nowhere is it more evident than in the halls of Congress where the slightest difference of opinion results in a nasty food fight and possible shutdown.
Stay in school, kids. All your sign-waving and moments of silence cannot fix the ills of a society buckling under the weight of our collective mental and physical illness caused by the consumption of poisonous foods and abuse of harmful drugs, obsession with violent entertainment, bastardization of sex, ejection of God from everyday society, growing racial rivalry, disregard for the elderly, abandonment of nature and misguided worship of money and celebrity. Instead of worrying about the gun laws, fixing these broken parts of our society should command your full attention.
Forget the guns; sad but true, killers will find a way. Just yesterday, someone with a twisted soul tossed a 35-pound boulder from an overpass onto a random car driving along a highway, killing a 23-year-old man in the passenger seat with his pregnant wife at the wheel and his mother and 4-year-old daughter in the back seat. My message for the students who now claim to fear for their lives by attending school is instead of cutting class, study harder and be a force for good when you grow up.
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