The Ineducability of the Poor 05 18 2025

So again on the news tonight someone was pleading to keep guns out of the hands of children.

One kid got his hands on one and shot his brother.

You know, that isn't our fault!  That Second Amendment is designed to keep us free.

So what do we attribute the problem to?

Is there such an issue as the ineducability of the poor?

I believe so.

And if you are poor and you know it doesn't apply to you, well...

So to me it looks like these children are from poor crime ridden areas.  Whereby perhaps that gun is more necessary to have in the house to keep you or your family from being pushed drugs on?  To keep your daughter from being sold into prostitution?  To keep you new car or personal items from being stolen?  To keep you from being extorted or blackmailed?

Not that it advocates violence.  But that Second Amendment is a great defense isn't it?  If someone knows you are armed in your country they are less likely to commit a criminal act against you?  What I mean is, just the potential...

Keep guns out of the hands of children?  There are some real bad kids out there, it wouldn't make any difference whatsoever where in that little brewery worker house that father hid the key to the gun or guns.  That bad kid is gonna figure it our or know.

And these are families where the father say's to the son, "That is the gun.  If they are robbing me you know what to do."

Are these willfully mouthy and obnoxious families that have the gun problems?  Well I suppose I couldn't articulate that enough for you to understand what I meant by it?  Because what I am speaking of seems like every day normality to you.

So I would ask the question, about the ineducability of the poor?

You scoff and me and want to point to statistics.  You want to point out some story where someone dirt poor became highly educated and very wealthy because of it.  etc etc.

Perhaps I need to phrase it like this, "You all want to....."

And what did I hear about parents of kids living in the poor?  They have this attitude with regard to their children, "I don't care what you do so long as you don't get caught."

Okay, right there.  Stop and think seriously about what that means in regard to this issue?  That...what they are telling their children doesn't work and it isn't good enough!  Because that child is learning to be a certain way, from that.  And they are not going to turn off that bad learning inside their own home!  And that isn't educated parents that tell their children that.

That isn't our fault!

Look around you everywhere you go.  We built and maintained clean schools for all of you.  These people don't value that.  They got that King and Queen mentality and likely do not have the comparative of an 8th grade education.  Do they even have the mentality greater than an 8 year old.

That second amendment is designed to keep us free.  And it means something.  There is a element of personal responsibility with regard to it.  That is something we don't deny in this country.  That isn't something we attempt to subversively devalue.

© 2025 Thomas Paul Murphy