Thursday, December 2, 2021

The Second Amendment and Young Girls

  December 2, 2021: https://www.twobitsmedia.us/

   Second Amendment is powerful enough in this country now that I dont think it matters how many school children have to die before the far right pays attention. In the Michigan school shooting authorities are looking at charging the parents also.
     I think, when it involves a school or school age kids that the parents should always be charged. I guarantee that after a few parents are charged that theres a lot of adults with kids that will start making sure their kids cant get their guns and teach the will teach them a little common sense.  Granted, that will not stop all shootings..but will slow it down and possibly curb school shootings altogether.
If we continue the trend we have now, there will be another school shooting by January or February. Four school kids aged 14-17 died in the Michigan shooting. The 15 year old shooter had a gun his dad just bought. The kid posted a picture of himself with the gun on Instagram and posted threats online the night before. Social media has been a detrimental force in society in everything from politics, pandemics and shootings and even basic academics on some things.
    
     There's a new trend on youtube where people who have never heard of older songs, listen and react to them live on video. As a long time music fan and even dealer, I watch them off and on to see how they react to certain songs and how they interpret them. Sometimes they are rather comical, but then again, most of these people are pretty young and havent had a big dose of 60s 70s or 80s music...even a lot of 90s music.
Last night I saw a react to a song by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap called "Young Girl." Now I have heard that song many times on oldies radio and even had the LP once. But I guess I wasnt paying close attention to the lyrics. The song is actually about an adult male who loves an under age girl and knows it is wrong and is asking the "young girl" to "get out of my mind."
I cant imagine someone recording that today without major controversy, but it kind slipped by the morality police in the 60s. I might have just been out of the loop on that one. I did find this article where Puckett addresses the song: Gary Puckett chats about singing ‘Young Girl’ in the age of #metoo