Vegas is what happens when a nation turns its back on morality, abandons personal responsibility, and embraces self-destruction

I don't know how many times I've mentioned this but, once upon a time, school children brought their guns to school - on the bus. The weapons were then stored in lockers until their marksmanship class or until their after-school, extracurricular, gun club meet. As inconceivable as this seems in our modern world - where you just know what would happen - this wasn't uncommon. It wasn't something that occurred at that "one weird school" with the strange curriculum. It was pretty much everywhere.

I, sadly, am not old enough to remember this world. I was born in the 70's. My parents? They remember it. After the horrific events in Las Vegas I received a text from my mom:

"You just barely remember the tail end of the way America was, and your child will never know it at all."

That's the reality of the country in which we live, and despite what late night talk show hosts, pretend Presidents, and Hollywood gun-grabbers would have you believe, it's not about guns. Not one damn bit. Firearms catch the blame, because it's easy to blame tools, but the implement used in horrific attacks like the one in Las Vegas are scapegoats. Last night, on the Tucker Carlson show, I watched Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar come as close to acknowledging this fact as I've ever seen a Democrat come. As Cuellar puts it:

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“I think there are some people who believe in gun control. I don’t believe in gun control. I think you can have responsible people do the right thing with a gun but unfortunately sometimes you get a situation like this that it’s hard to explain but just taking guns away from everybody is not going to solve the issue.”

As Carlson pointed out:

“There were no mass shootings when you were a kid. There was one, University of Texas, Chuck Whitman, 1962, who had a brain tumor. But they weren’t a feature of American life. What’s changed? What’s going on actually?”

The real culprit is ...all of us. We're the denizens of a nation that, either through decisions or attrition, turned its back on its morality, abandoned the concept of personal responsibility, and embraced self-destruction in the name of convenience. We created - or allowed the creation - of the America we deserve. Our popular culture mocks the virtuous and makes heroes of the evil. We reward our worst impulses and openly ridicule the "better angels of our nature." One political party booed the very concept of God out of its convention. Satanic displays are given equal footing with Christmas displays and mangers. For cripes sakes, Lucifer has his own TV show - and he's the hero.

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Dare to suggest that right and wrong exist and, if you're lucky, you'll face a barrage of equivalency. If you're not lucky, you'll face rage. To suggest that something is "morally right" is to ipso facto suggest that absolute "moral wrong" exists. That can't be tolerated. Making moral stands is hard, and causes political issues for the prevailing culture. Blame is simple, and it feels good. It relieves you of the abject terror that comes with admitting your own failures and shortcomings. It grants you the freedom not to struggle to be better than what you are. So, we sit here, in the mire, and we rot. As I said, we're all to blame. We all let this happen, either by contributing to it or to shrugging our shoulders and staying silent as the decay set in. Honestly, I have no idea how - or if - we can turn it around. I genuinely don't know if enough people want to.