Our Country’s Past Is Slipping Away Fast
by Larry Turner

I have been properly chastised in the past about ranting about the state of our country and its citizens and that if we don’t correct the situation soon our country will never be the same as when we were born into it.  Let me take a minute to recount a few new items that appeared in just a couple of days on my iPhone news feed:

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Four people were killed and ten wounded at a family party in California.
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A son is accused of killing his parents in Ohio.
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Three teens charged with the murder of a 9/11 survivor.
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A teen is killed on a cruise ship and her body stuffed under her bed.
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A former marine breaks into a stranger’s house and stabs to death a friend staying there for a sleepover.
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An Illinois man set fire to his house after a family argument.
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Several stories appeared about drivers getting killed in road rage incidents.
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A man obsessed with a woman kills her, her granddaughter and a friend.
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A foreign national was welcomed into our country by a prior administration even though, as alleged, he explicitly stated that he came here in order to kill Americans.
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A mayor-elect of one of our major cities expressed his intent to commute the sentences of thousands of jailed criminals, many of whom were convicted of horrible crimes, some deadly.

Although my memory is far from perfect, I don’t remember in the many years I have been alive when this many stories about crimes, many heinous, appeared in only a few days.And my research was limited to coverage by one iPhone news platform.

If law enforcement and the judicial system don’t devise programs to rid our country of those who commit these crimes, and prevent such criminal actions in the future, we will have no country to will to our survivors. Is that to be our legacy?