Are we safe in our country?

For quite sometime I have been thinking about something that has been on a lot of folks? mind for quite a while. The reason I have never mentioned anything about it is that when something is said, especially by President Bush, it?s like touching someone?s sore boil that is in a very sensitive spot. And as everybody knows who has ever had a boil, they always seem to come up in the most sensitive part of the body. I don?t care where it comes up, you will always get it bumped. And the more it?s bumped the worse it seems to get.

All of us seem to have a concern about the war in Iraq. Iraqi forces seem to have very little regard for human life. It is most difficult for me to understand their belief in they think they are doing their ?god? a service by killing those that they think are their enemies, and they think they will be rewarded by their ?god? for so doing.

Quite honestly I would be extraordinarily afraid to meet up with a society liken to this. Just the thoughts of someone killing someone with the thought they would be doing God a service is most horrifying.

But the question is, are we any more safe in the United States of America than we would be in the streets of Iraq? On the news we continually are updated on the number of Americans who have lost their lives in an effort to bring peace and liberty to those people. But I have never heard an ?update? of the number killed on the streets of the United States during the same period of time. Do you think it would surprise us? It could! Most likely it would!

The last time I heard, we live in a free country. But I don?t think the term ?free country? means absolute freedom. We must assuredly have respect for others. This may be the key to a happy life. The last I heard the United States was not in a war inside its borders.

However, it seems so tragic to me that it isn?t safe in our country anymore. Even in our schools and churches, where one would think would be safe havens, have in many cases, proven to be just the opposite.

A friend said he takes a walk at the noon hour where he is employed. The way he talked the business is on a lonely road. During his walk he met a individual who moved hear from Detroit.

The man told my friend just how the Detroit area was getting. The congregation where he attended church had to have armed guards at all the entrances to keep those in attendance from being robbed and shot. This is not Iraq! This is America!

Guns in school continue to be a problem. And why so? Forty years ago when I was in school, the biggest problem the teachers had was gum chewing, talking out of turn, running in the hall and missing the trash can. One could say, ?We have come a long way, baby?! Yes, but I think it?s the wrong way.