Larry Knows

IF BAD ACTS BY MEN ARE GOING TO BE NOTED MULTIPLE TIMES DAILY, SO ARE BAD ACTS BY WOMEN, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FAIRNESS IN REPORTING

In a horrible and bizarre tragedy, police in Houston, Texas, today reported that a woman called them asking for someone to come to the home to look in on her children.

When police arrived at the house, 36 year-old Andrea Yates told them she killed her five children. They discovered the lifeless bodies of the children, aged 6 months to 7 years. Initial reports indicate that the woman drowned each child in the bathtub.

At this time no indication has been given as to why the woman would commit such an unthinkable, dreadful act, other than that she had experienced post-partum depression. The woman's husband, father of the children, was notified at the nearby Johnson Space Center, where he is employed.

There are no words to adequately express the horror and shock evoked in reaction to such an incident.

This woman is obviously a deranged, sick individual who did the most unnatural thing possible in this world – taking the lives of her very own flesh and blood.

Mass murder has become all too commonplace in modern society, by various, equally evil, methods. Stabbings and beatings and shootings in public places. Murder by drowning committed by mothers of their own children.

What answers can there be for such irrational, illogical and criminal acts?

What measures could possibly be enacted to prevent such killings?

It seems readily apparent that sick minds will employ any means at their disposal if they are so warped in mind and so devoid of heart to even conceive of such despicable acts.

At times such as these, public reaction is understandable and predictable.

However, the words and deeds of our supposed government leaders often, though highly selectively, focus on only one kind of the above crimes: those involving a firearm.

Never once have they clamored to ban baseball bats or knives or, now, bathtubs. Nor have they called for background checks – or closing flea market loopholes, for that matter – for any of these items used legally and lawfully everday by all of our citizens.

That, of course, would be crazy.

But when it comes to firearms, it’s a different story.

The Left breathlessly pounces on any of these crimes, demanding that the rights of law-abiding citizens be curtailed and trampled because some sicko committed murder.

That’s because the Left and its media promoters have deemed that the unconstitutional abridgement of the right to keep and bear arms has somehow become, improperly and falsely, an acceptable course of action.

And the sad fact is that never have any of these laws done anything other than restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens, due to what should be obvious: Criminals by definition do not obey the law in the first instance.

Never mind that they refused for eight years to enforce the 20,000 gun laws already on the books.

But the Left knows that and doesn’t really care one iota, because they have the political issue, which is all they ever want: to appeal to the mindless, feel-good, lowest common denominator.

Rather than lionize murderers such as McVeigh and Garza as they were rightly put to death for their heinous crimes, the media would do well to look at themselves, turning their thoughts and attention inward, to reflect and take responsibility for their part in running down our traditional values and our long-held notions of right and wrong.

And while they are at it, they should examine the questionable ethics and morals of the 49 senators who voted against the Boy Scouts of America last week, in a shameful display intended to trash the reputation of a youth group that has done nothing more than adhere to its deeply held beliefs and morals. Not surprisingly, the media also piled on to vilify the Scouts and those courageous senators who stood up for our young people.

Is it any wonder that the Clinton-inspired me, me, me philosophy has wrought the tragic devaluing of humanity, resulting in the brutal taking of life as has increasingly occurred since he first cast his shadow in the Oval Office?

The time for niceties and subtleties is long past.

Just ask the poor father whose own life was wrecked today.