Last year was the worst year on record for school shootings 94 incidents for 2018, which resulted in 55 deaths. This is tragic!
For the record that all schools are defined from preschool through college. So, when two gang bangers get in a fight after a party in the college parking lot at midnight and shoot each other, it classified as a school shooting just as the dramatic events at Parkland are.
School shootings have been called a national emergency by many and our lawmakers and trying to figure out ways to stop these shooting. I agree that some tougher and better mental health laws would do our country wonders. Not only with the shooting but with the mentally ill homeless population.
I don’t think there any debate on the above issue by liberal or conservatives, by the Left or the Right, by the progressives, by Republicans or Democrats, by Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer or Donald Trump. How to solve it is the issue, but the principle is not.
So, we all agree that it is a national emergency.
What if I told you that there were 1,641 homicide convictions and another 387 homicides arrest in 2018, would that be tragic and a national emergency. Those are only the ones we know of and have evidence regarding those committed by illegal immigrants. It is safe to conclude the number is even larger, because of the unsolved cases
That does not include DUI’s 54,630 convictions, dangerous drugs 55,109 convictions, assaults 29,987 convictions, sexual assaults 3,740 convictions. This is only a partial list; I would recommend you read the ICE report for a complete listing.
Yet, this is not a crisis, and it is immoral to put up a barrier to stop people from coming into the USA. Where the reasoning for this. It is a selective vision that allows this. I cannot prove it with the data I found, but I am willing to guess there were almost or at least the same ratio of children killed by illegal immigrates.
It is time we are honest with ourselves and each other.
Will the barrier stop all drugs and illegal immigration? Of course not!
Then why “Waste” the money to build one? This is simple and straight forward. It the same reason we lock our cars, homes and put up fences around our home and property. It a deterrent, plain and simple. If someone really wants to steal our car, break into our homes, they will find a way. What we are really trying to stop the crime of convivence. “Oh, that car open, let’s look in it to see what we can take since no one is around.”
Doesn’t a barrier make us anti-immigrate? Of course not. We only want to know who is entering our country, do you want to know who entering your property? Common sense!
Do we believe illegal immigrates are bad people? Again, common sense must prevail. Having grown up in farming communities of Central California, I have known legal and illegal immigrates all my life. Some bad, but most are good hardworking people. Most just want to earn money to support their families. So why not provide a vehicle that allows them to work and then leave. I haven’t heard that discussion by anyone.
Until the United States society learn people can want the same end results but can have different ways to achieve it and not be horrible people because of it. That only by talking and honestly working together to find the best way to get to achieve the results is the best way to advance. It is not by pushing a pollical agenda or power position that the best results are achieved.
I have had the pleasure of meeting Jesse Jackson a few times. Rev. Jackson and I have the same end goals to empower people, to educate people, to support the family structure regardless of color, ethnic origin or anything. However, we do have a completely different view of how to get there.
Does that make us wrong in goals? No!
Does that make my or his way the only way? No, but I do know that by us working together that we can come up with a better way than we can individually.
That is true with the immigration issue. The first part is common sense, build a wall as you would around your own home while you work honestly with others that are actually trying to solve the problem and trying to serve an agenda.
Calling a wall as immoral when you voted for it and spoke how needed it was in the past is serving an agenda. The harsh language only hurts everyone, and no one gains in the end. Do you realize that over 65 other countries have borders walls? Countries such as India, Pakistan, Ukraine, China, Iran, Belize, South Africa, Spain, Russia, and Hungary. Are all those countries immoral?
Build the wall and treat each other with respect to finding a solution.