Originally Posted by
glocktogo
While I agree, particularly as a Reagan Marine, that was a different time. The world we're passing down isn't the same one we were given.
Things change. The pendulum swings back and forth to different extremes.
Columbine wasn't the worst school tragedy, at the time that was still the Bath School Massacre of 1927.
We engaged in eugenics in the 1930s and imprisoned and forcibly sterilized people simply because we declared them indigent. The US military engaged in the Tuskeegee experiments where black men (including US military members) were not told they had syphilis and an extended study was conducted from 1932 to 1972. In some cases it appears some subjects might have been deliberately infected as part of the study. Most were only told they were part of a free health care program.
So at different times in the past we've been capable of some pretty horrific things, at other times in the past we've been pretty decent and noble. We seem to keep going back and forth, we can be decent again...especially if he have to endure very turbulent times.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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