Evidently that's what the petitioners have on their mind Lazs. I don't agree with that train of thought, but there it is in the form of a petition. I don't see it as a gun issue. I see it as a freedom issue. It's the idea if someone can remove one American tradition...guns...will they stop there?
How long before petitions and polls end up being the order of the day, when it comes to governmental decisions? It's the wrong path to take, and not what the Founding Fathers had in mind.
Here's an example, though I don't know if it's a good one. I'm an artist. Every week in the Sunday paper, the arts editor devotes much print to local "contemporary art", but not local contemporary artists, maybe one or two, always the same ones. When traditional art is mentioned in the paper, it is rarely local. Any advice is not welcome, far as how 'bout giving press to local traditional art. Fine, the editor does not know much about visual art. He's a theater writer. Yet he has come very close to denigrating any local traditional art as bogus and not worth writing about. He has all but stated this in his columns. He thinks he's progressive and "cutting edge."... When his local coverage is the same abstract gallery and same academic artists mentioned over and over again. Why does he like them so much? Because the work displayed is not likely to sell. Some of it does, but a lot of it is conceptual art and done strictly for art's sake.
The producers of this art are not professional artists, but college professors mostly, doctors and otherwise well off financially, without having to sell their art for a living. So his stance, at least in my mind, is the result of a misguided mindset..."I don't publish 'for profit' galleries or any commercially viable art.
Why do you suppose this is Lazs? I have been in academic settings, and it seems at least in the school of liberal arts (arts and sciences), there is an almost disdain for capitalism and concern with money matters. The problem self perpetuates so these people are trapped in the ivory tower and the discrimination and political correctness that goes along with it.
I might add, Mobile is a small town and not known for its artistic support. Coverage from the paper is pretty much one-sided in my opinion.
Well anyway Lazs. I think I know why you are incredulous about the way things seem to be going. I am too. "The price of freedom is eternal vigilence."
Les
