The Problem With Today

 It’s sad to think that we are living in such sad times. School shootings, people thinking the only way to combat it is with money and councilors. Yes it’s true, I’m no longer a young or middle aged man, but I remember how it once was, and wonder why it can’t be that way again.
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When I was young the majority of people went to church, both on Sunday and Wednesday night. We had gatherings, potlucks, Easter sunrise services, Christmas services, it was great. Yes there were problems here and there, underage drinking, I confess I was guilty of that, and in school the biggest problem was smoking in the restrooms, I was guilty of that to, an occasional truancy, the bully that would sometimes show up, but he was usually taught the error of his ways. Those were the things that were considered troublesome then.
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So what has changed? Church, Sunday School, Wednesday night services going by the wayside more and more. We use to take turns reading from the Bible every morning before the Pledge. Discipline was handed out as needed by parents, today the idea of discipline is time out, big deal, your arrested today for spanking your child for misbehavior. Then it was a spanking from Dad when he got home. Mothers were in the home, they were there when the kids got out of school, today kids practically raise themselves. Guards, metal detectors in school unheard of. High school kids driving pickups had filled gun racks. Kids in the NRA Safety Class brought their rifles and shotguns with ammunition to school, brought it into school and placed it in their basement lockers, look where we are today.
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If we are to have a future we must return to the ways of the past and let that be a roadmap for a healthy society.
N. H. Born and raised.