"You know, folks, how many of you have — in your own minds — longed for what you consider to be the innocence and the simpler days of the past? How many of you have thought about how innocent life seemed back in the ’50s? Ozzie and Harriet. In the ’50s we had a Second Amendment. It was as robust and thriving then as it is now. What did we not have in the 1950s and into the 1960s? What did we not have? We didn’t have school shootings.
There were the occasional mass shootings, Richard Speck and the nurses in Texas. They were really, really rare — and those were in the mid to late ’60s which itself was a decade of great turmoil and revolution. But in the decade of the ’50s, the decade of innocence, the post-war economic boom decade — mom and dad, the 2.8 kids, white picket fence, family dog, station wagon gone in the garage. Whenever anybody reminisces about returning to those days, what are they told? They’re mocked and they’re laughed at. They’re made fun of.
“You can’t go back! You can’t do that! We can never go back to the ’50s. The ’50s weren’t that great anyway. We can’t do that. You’ve got to grow up. You’ve got to understand that things change — and even if you don’t like ’em, you gotta learn to accept them.” Now, in many instances the people wishing for a rebirth of those days of innocence are talking primarily about cultural things, when there seemed to be a more robust morality that the majority of the Americans abided by and agreed with.
It is cultural degradation that most people lament when they talk about returning to the ’50s. And, of course, those who are benefitting from the cultural degradation who don’t want to return, mock those who long for those simpler days by telling them, “Grow up! Get real! You have to accept things as they are. Things change — and if you don’t want to change with them, then you’re a so and so.” Isn’t it interesting that the American media and its fellow radicals are essentially asking for a return to a more innocent time — a simpler time when these events did not happen?
When school shootings, mass shootings, church shootings, movie theater shootings, didn’t happen. They are hell bent on believing that we can make that journey to the past. They are convinced that we can get there by simply eliminating the Second Amendment or eliminating guns or what have you. What would their reaction be if we were to say: “Come on, get real! You can’t go back to the ’50s. None of us can go back to the ’50s. We can’t turn back the hands of the clock. We have to deal with what’s now.”
Exactly what the left tells people who reminisce about the ’50s today. We can’t go back to the ’50s! You’ve got deal with it! If you don’t like gay marriage, deal with it! If you don’t like transgender bathrooms, deal with it.! If you don’t like open-borders immigration, deal with it!” People who long for a more innocent and simpler time are mocked and laughed at and impugned in any number of ways, and yet now it is the American left somehow seemingly longing for those days in the past when these kinds of events didn’t happen.
They have a firm belief we can get back there. All we gotta do is something with guns. We’ve gotta take them away from people that have them; we’ve got to prevent new ones being made or sold. We’ve gotta get rid of the Second Amendment. Totally unrealistic demand and unrealistic expectations. But even worse: A failure to recognize the current reality and deal with that. And until they, not us — but until they — can deal with the current reality instead of lamenting and wishing for days that no longer exist, we’re never going to fix this.
We’re never going to solve it. Because their solutions require us to get in our time machines and revisit a previous age where things were simpler and innocent. But if we can’t do it with cultural issues, if we have to sit here and accept the reality that has become our society, then doesn’t that hold for all areas of our country’s evolution? And it does. We can’t go back. It isn’t the Twilight Zone. It’s not Star Trek. We can’t beam ourselves back. We can’t beam the guns away. We can’t go back and destroy those that have been made.
Even if we get rid of the Second Amendment, there’s still 300 million guns out there.
That’s a reality we have to deal with — and we do in many other areas. We have air marshals on airplanes. We don’t know who they are but they’re there. We have armed security at so many places in this country. Try to go to a Super Bowl, any public supporting event. The security you’re required to go through? (sigh) I mean, it never was ever like this. In the ’50s and the ’60s, you wanted to go to the ballpark; you went to the ballpark! You didn’t worry about a terrorist bomb or a lunatic shooter. But now we have to, and we deal with it — except in schools. For some reason, we’re told, “We can’t turn schools into armed security depots.”
Why? It’s about the only thing that’s really going to stop this."
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Rush NAILS it... again. (School Shootings, etc)
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