Ban Assault Bows

culture; Democrat or Bubonic Valentine's Day at Sandy Hook "Ban Assault Bows!!!" Kim dT SCROLL Kim's justifiably cynical use of metaphor here (I doctored the angel) caused me to reflect yet again on my 5th grade teacher at Saint Clement's.  She spoke of things to expect in the end times  Two I remember are:  Ireland will sink into the sea, and thus escape the coming horror as reward for remaining true to the faith, and Life would become a terrifying existence where people would be reduced to using bows and arrows to defend themselves from marauders.  Nobody would dare walk the streets. This is he same nun who, while asking us to pray for the imprisoned (by Godless Communists) Cardinal József Mindszenty, cautioned us never to take our freedom for granted.  That just as the Germans under Hitler, and the Russians under Lenin and Stalin, had turned nations into a police state by offering false platitudes and promising a heaven on earth, we too could succumb should ever allow bad government to subjugate us.  Here's the part that really stuck with me. As an exercise we wrote down a list of things that, if they ever happened, would be cause to turn on our government, not that God forbid, there was any hint of that happening.  Without such a list, or being grounded in the what freedom entails, she instructed,  it would be easy to incrementally accept that which would enslave us. I am not making that up. I'm sure her tutelage is responsible for my life-long, utter hatred of Communism, and all that it stands for.