Progressives believe the way to stop violence and increase
happiness is to ban everything. Ban guns. Ban ammunition. Ban assault trucks.
Ban axes. Ban machetes. Ban knives. Ban baseball bats. Ban weed-whackers. Ban
air conditioning. Ban refrigerators. Ban inhalers. Ban shirts with the names of
firearm manufacturers on them from our school grounds. Ban fracking. Ban DDT.
Ban oil exploration. Ban nuclear power plants. Ban hate-speech (except their
own). Ban the Ten Commandments from appearing in public. Ban pastors from
reciting certain Bible passages. Ban designated-sex bathrooms. Ban the sale of
soft drinks in containers over 16 ounces. Ban trans-fats…do you see a pattern?
All of
this is purportedly for ‘our own good.’ But banning things is not
progressive, is not the answer. We are a train racing blindly down the wrong
track…towards a deep, dark abyss.
Inanimate
objects aren’t the problem. The “problem” is evil. We can’t ban evil. But we
can recognize its existence. And we can fight it and defeat it.
That is
precisely what must happen, if we are
to prevent the extinction of freedom and morality.
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