In Response

My comment to an Allison Gauss story, From the Crazy Leftis Who Wants to Take Your Guns, became my blog post.

I know a few of these loving gun citizens, and the thinking behind their knee-jerk reaction to an assault ban doesn't go that deep. A good part of their difficulty with being unreasonable about the assault weapons ban is lack of introspection. Putting oneself in another shoe, only one of them at a time mind you, would significantly expand a self-centered concern.

The high school in this area has a constable and locked doors during school hours, but this is a half measure. If our society refuses to accept school shooting as a systemic problem and continues labeling school shooters as mentally unstable and each event isolated, our present false sense of security will erode exponentially.

In our personal lives ignoring emotional, psychological, or physical difficulties only exacerbates the problem. If we chose to ignore our perception, feelings, and intuition and deny the existence of a problem we inadvertently assign nature the responsibility of tending our life. Denying ourselves insights have a catastrophic effect on our being; those checks and balances that could occur spontaneously are rerouted externally. Our consciousness, our nature, plots a different path attempting to deliver a priority message from the environment to us.

I know how I respond to a stranger invading my space, I am cautious and reserved. Perceiving a stranger, or circumstance as an instruction concerning your life is a tall order when the ability to listen to oneself exists. What are the chances of decoding an externalized message having become adept at ignoring your inner voice?

Jeff Bailey © 2018