Back in April, worn out from a long weekend at the NRA Annual Meeting in Atlanta, I planned to take Monday, April 28th, off. I figured I needed a little bit of rest from an exhausting weekend that was, essentially, work. It was great, mind you, but it was still work.
I settled back to watch a podcast I enjoy, and things were a little weird. It was shorter than normal, and the title was clearly about some allegations that are disturbing. Instead of taking the day off, I immediately started writing about what was unveiled, publishing it here.
I've written a number of pieces about what is transpiring in Buffalo, NY, and I've donated literally every penny I made from covering those pieces to charity.
But what that podcast episode sparked was something deeper within me.
I realized that protecting my children isn't enough. While I value our rights and will continue to work to protect them, we must protect our children as well, and not just their rights, but their innocence, and as a society, we suck at it.
For example, while school shootings are some systemic problem that calls for the dismantling of our gun rights, did you know that students are eight times more likely to be raped by a teacher than experience a school shooting? They're more than 20 times more likely to experience some general form of sexual misconduct from a teacher.
In Buffalo, we're learning all the various ways that the Buffalo Public Schools are refusing to protect the children in their care. There have been 17,700 and then some calls to 9-1-1 since 2021, with more than half of them uncategorized. There are allegations that the schools are getting in the way of treatment for students experiencing medical issues, including two students who were given a high dose of THC in the form of a gummy by a teacher on top of mandatory reporters failing to report abuse.
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And then there's the people from across the nation telling us that they know this is happening in their school systems.
For years, the Jeffrey Epstein files sat and accumulated dust, despite the general knowledge that he enabled his wealthy, powerful friends to engage in some demented sexual acts with young people. The powerful have been protected while the victims suffered.
And these are just the things that we, more or less, can agree on being a problem across party aisles.
We also have the fact that our children are being subjected to social experiments where their bodies are mutilated by doctors and parents because they say they're a different gender than the one their biology tells us they are. Parents are often stripped of their parental rights in some states if they fail to acknowledge this declaration and provide the necessary medical procedures--I can't call it "care" without gagging--even though many kids sort of grow out of the idea that they're transgender if allowed to.
Then we allow kids who claim to be a different gender to enter the space reserved for the opposite sex, and then victimize those kids in various ways. Lea Thomas was, as of the time "she" was competing in college, still equipped as a man would be, yet stripped down in the women's locker room, the "woman's" junk flopping around for all to see, in a place where that shouldn't have happened.
Loudon County, Virginia covered up a sexual assault committed by a male student in the girl's bathroom because they didn't want to screw up proposed changes to the system's bathroom policy. They were more worried about the politics of the situation than the fact that a girl was sexually assaulted.
This is not how a society protects its children.
The fact that we remotely tolerate arguments that put our children in danger is a sign that we are way off track from where a decent society should be. Our kids deserve better from our nation, and that includes protecting them from themselves when needed, and not just protecting them from the leftists that have infested schools and other key positions that let them put our kids at risk.
We have to step up.
We have to do better.
And that means destroying the institutions built upon the lies that put our kids in danger.
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