The thoughts and ideas expressed below are exclusively those of Jack Straley and www.justplaintalkwithjack.com  We may agree, and that’s fine, or we may disagree, that’s okay too.  My sole purpose is to encourage others to think, study, and become involved. Exercise your freedom and above all, when presented the opportunity, please vote.

I will echo the statements above.  These are my thoughts and will surely have some people strongly disagreeing with me.  It’s not personal or uncaring, just what I feel.

I have never owned or even seen a gun that ever killed anyone or anything.  It has always been the person behind the gun.  There are many other ways people can kill others but guns are the single item the mass media focuses on.  There are accidents that involve killing people or crippling them for life, but these incidents are far and few between.  Even one accidental death by a person welding a gun is one too many, accidents will happen.

Once again we have a mass shooting at a Catholic Church school by a deranged lunatic.  Bullets from the gun caused the carnage that ensued but they were aimed and fired by a crazed transgender that should not have been on the streets.  It was a sign of mental illness when he decided to try to change what God had made and become a woman.  No one can be of a sane mind and try to change their sex and plan on continuing a normal life.

When I was young I had an elderly aunt that lived in Austin, Texas.  She was a widow woman, living in a one room apartment near the store where she worked.  To get to her place of employment we drove past a big brick building with a relatively high fence encircling the property.  I learned early that that was the insane asylum where crazy people lived.  I learned over the years that the residents of this place were mistreated and there were reports of the men and women meeting and enjoying intimate times together.  I am told these individuals were drugged and even beaten in efforts to maintain discipline.

In the 1950’s and 1960’s there were movements to shut down these institutions to correct inhumane treatment of the mentally afflicted.  These people were sick, not crazy.  With no plan in place for treatment or housing or care of any kind for these people they were basically all put on the street.  Families had no idea what to do or how to help these newly released patients and wards of the state. 

Mental illness can appear with many different faces.  Trained professionals can detect and treat the differing aspects of mental instability.  Any individual desiring a sex change procedure is mentally lacking and misdirected, yet this is only one of many ways mental illness propels itself.

As a youngster, had I walked up to my parents and announced I wanted to be a girl, all hell would have broken lose.  My parents would have been responsible parents and put a stop to that nonsense immediately.  No teacher I ever had in school would have run to my aid, behind my parents back and encouraged such a thing.  No person in the clergy would have become involved.  If I continued to push the issue, and I didn’t, God only knows what would have happened to me.

Parents have a role to play in this also.  As I stated above, my parents were role models and coached my sisters and I on right and wrong.  Maybe my generation didn’t do the job as well as we should have, but we thought we were trying.  As we slacked up, the next generation slacked just a little more.  That’s the generation this horde of sexual degenerates springs from.  It comes down to we all have responsibility for the rash of mental illness we have.  Maybe RFK Jr is right, lets clean up the food, control the medications and make families complete again.

Over the past eighty years great advances have been made in the study and understanding of mental sickness.  Maybe we should reopen these institutions or create new ones for the treatment of these individuals.  Compassion and care can be the center of attention for these facilities.  They need treatment and they need to be placed on watch lists so that law enforcement will know they are at risk of hurting themselves or others.  If on these watch lists they would not be able to purchase guns legally.  In no way should I be penalized for owning or buying more guns because of their illness.

I have compassion for sick people but I care more about the people they shoot when their mind is on vacation.  We must find a way to stop the senseless killing, but gun control is not the means to the end we desire.

In parting I hope you live each day to the fullest, we are not promised a tomorrow, and thank God for every day you have.