Friday December 17 is National Take Your Gun to School Day. This is not something sponsored by the NRA, USCCA, or any other gun rights group. It is not even a nationally recognized official day. It might actually be sponsored by the Chinese. Some of you that are parents know what I am talking about. This is a ‘movement’ being pushed on our kids through the social media app, Tik Tok.

Apparently for quite some time, some Tik Tok influencers have been encouraging our children to vandalize their schools. They have been told to go into bathrooms and tear out sinks and toilets; to vandalize their teachers' desks; to destroy facilities; and to spray paint everything they can. Some children have been going along. And now they are being encouraged to take a gun to school to threaten fellow students, teachers, and administration. It has prompted fear in parents and caused some schools to increase security.

Back in our day, if we had a day where we were encouraged to take our guns to school it would have been a good thing. We probably would have compared our hunting rifles and swapped stories about our shooting prowess, including with our teachers and staff. Today it has a much different meaning and I believe is being deliberately manipulated to continue to divide us and scare us.

Tik Tok is owned and run by a Chinese company with strong Communist Party ties. There is no doubt that they are gathering data and information on its users with plans to use it in some nefarious way. Can I say they are promoting this type of behavior on their social media app? No, but I did not rule it out.

I believe that what is going on in this country is a movement to fundamentally change our governmental system. Most of you would probably agree with me. It began with the indoctrination of our children in these schools, shifting the focus from education to focusing on self-esteem. It then progressed from telling kids how to think to telling them what to think.

Our education systems at the direction of our politicians with the support of their friends in the media have told our children it's more important to focus on things like gender, sexuality, racism, and other hot button topics. It takes the focus away from what this country is truly about and the principles upon which it was founded. No longer do we think about freedom, individuality, liberty, and our rights as citizens, but we have told people to focus on being victims.

Especially in minority groups, except for the Asians, anyone can get it in the eyes of society by become a victim. Jussie Smollett faked an attack by white supremacists and was immediately hailed as a hero. No matter how successful the person may be if they can prove to you that they are a victim of some wrong, they are instantly elevated to the equivalent of sainthood. Look at how many criminals with horrible records have been made national heroes simply because the perception was that they had been victims of racism.

We are told there is white privilege in this country. If there is, that white privilege is in the form of expectations. We expect that there will be a nuclear family, that our children will go to school and excel in reading, mastering the English language, performing mathematical tasks, and learning how to interact with others. This is also a common theme in the Asian community. But we were told that the African American community cannot have those expectations because of the way our country stacks the deck against them. We know there are examples in every demographic group, including the African Americans and the Hispanics, where the family puts those expectations upon their children and those children generally succeed. That is privilege in America. The privilege of expectations. The opposite of the bigotry of no expectations. 

But all of these things, coupled with defunding the police, so called criminal justice reform, end the elimination of consequences for one's actions are designed to give people like Joe Biden, George Soros, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Gates, and others the ability to make an argument that our form of government doesn't work. The constitution and the Bill of Rights are nice documents that had a good run but they were ultimately going to fail and it's time for a change.

I don't think the Chinese have created this situation, but I think they have seen it coming and have developed the relationships with influential politicians, businessmen, and celebrities and have encouraged them to push their agenda further. Maybe they have even advised them how to do it, given their experience in their own country. It is certainly an idea that deserves serious consideration

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