What 1,602 Miles Teaches about Guns

January 13, 2020 By Howard Sachs

Liberalism, progressivism, Democratic Party — they represent a normal part of each of us: a normal part, but mostly a dark, enfeebling, and destructive one. They represent the longing in each of us, to varying degrees, to remain a child.

Charles Shultz spoke about it in one of his great Peanuts cartoons. Charlie Brown lay there on the backseat of a car, looking up through the window to the heavens. Up front were his dear mom and dad. He thought about how utterly serene, safe, and peaceful the whole scene felt. But he and each of us know, or should know, that this part of life, beautiful childhood, comes and goes quickly. The longing for that tender feeling and worldview is there in all of us, whether we are 9, 40, or 90. However, if we allow it to capture our adult minds, it's usually a recipe for a troubled life — typically a recipe for much pain, darkness, and destruction.

That's what happened recently in Texas and New York. Some Americans in New York were captured under the rules and perspective of the child — the liberal, the Left, the Democrat Charlie Brown world. Some other Americans, in a Texas church, faced it in the world of the adult American — now called a conservative. It was what I call a perfect example of a true project: the 1602 Project from Texas...........It's 1,602 miles from Monsey, New York to White Settlement, Texas. It's a world of values and maturity away.............. who have given up such childish notions. That is why, at their core, they reject liberalism, progressivism, leftism, and the Democratic Party. They reject it because they embrace Americanism with its corresponding freedom, goodness, responsibilities, and adulthood............To Read More....