{"id":1494221,"date":"2022-05-27T08:16:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T12:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494221"},"modified":"2022-05-27T08:16:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T12:16:32","slug":"a-culture-that-celebrates-dismembering-children-in-the-womb-cant-understand-why-its-afflicted-with-mass-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-culture-that-celebrates-dismembering-children-in-the-womb-cant-understand-why-its-afflicted-with-mass-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"A Culture That Celebrates Dismembering Children In The Womb Can\u2019t Understand Why It\u2019s Afflicted With Mass Shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-culture-that-celebrates-dismembering-children-in-the-womb-cant-understand-why-its-afflicted-with-mass-shootings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494221&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-26-at-5.16.44-PM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As the country reels over the Texas massacre, where 19 children and two adults were gunned down by a single shooter who was barely more than a child himself, the question on everyone\u2019s mind is <em>why<\/em>? Why would any person march into an elementary school and open fire on innocents? And why can\u2019t we overcome such evil?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are we willing to live with this carnage?\u201d President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1529265610865123330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked<\/a>. \u201cWhy do we keep letting this happen? Where in God\u2019s name is our backbone to have the courage to deal with it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Biden was only asking the \u201cwhy\u201d questions as a rhetorical maneuver so he could weigh in with his predictable answer: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/25\/as-texas-families-get-the-worst-news-imaginable-bidens-attention-is-on-the-gun-lobby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">guns<\/a>. The usual political and media suspects joined the chorus. The left claims firearms themselves are the cause, and anything short of their preferred policy prescription of so-called \u201cuniversal background checks\u201d and an \u201cassault weapons ban\u201d is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/26\/doors-how-do-they-work-lets-find-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">irresponsible and egregious<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But those who see through the left\u2019s exploitation of this tragedy know there\u2019s something much bigger going on here than a nefarious piece of hardware. <\/p>\n<p>Amid the Texas news updates and hot takes, a stomach-churning <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LilaGraceRose\/status\/1529563193135308801?s=20&#038;t=Om8z3_XYnKG81NcegrEe9g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TikTok<\/a> made the rounds on Twitter. In it, a young, pro-abortion mother cradles her infant and says in a sing-song voice to the child, \u201cHi, I could have killed you, but I chose to let you live,\u201d then likening the killing of babies in utero to killing germs with hand sanitizer. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I realize what I just said, and I stand by it,\u201d she concludes.<\/p>\n<p>If Uvalde, Texas, is a tree, this culture of death is the forest. This environment of nonchalant killing is the biome that incubates and grows the most inhumane of humans, who have zero regard for life and bear the nasty fruit of that moral indifference in the form of violence and rape and murder.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the sickest of ironies that the Texas tragedy interrupted the left\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/03\/the-demonic-left-will-stop-at-nothing-including-destroying-the-supreme-court-to-kill-babies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mental breakdown<\/a> upon learning that their contrived \u201cright to abortion\u201d looks to be ending. After the leak of the draft opinion of <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health<\/em> <em>Organization<\/em>, demonstrators harassed and threatened Supreme Court justices outside their homes, sang \u201cThank God for abortion,\u201d and threw Molotov cocktails into pregnancy resource centers to burn them. Biden and others admitted that abortion kills a \u201cchild.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few months before that, on the steps of the Supreme Court, abortion activists <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/01\/abortion-activists-chant-grin-while-taking-baby-killing-pills-on-supreme-court-steps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chanted<\/a> \u201cAbortion! Pills! Forever!\u201d \u2014 all while laughing and dramatically popping pills to symbolize the lethal chemicals that kill human life in the womb. The corporate media routinely <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/23\/cnns-dana-bashs-solution-to-child-poverty-kill-the-babies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suggest<\/a> that babies would be better off dead than poor.<\/p>\n<p>The left says that pointing this out is a distraction from AR-15s and other killing machines, but it\u2019s impossible to look honestly at mass shootings and ignore the culture of death that prompts them.<\/p>\n<p>This culture is much deeper than abortion, though. That barbaric ritual is in many ways just another piece of rotten fruit from the same Godless tree. It\u2019s in rejecting the Creator\u2019s authority and the truth that He made every human being in His own image and for His glory, not our own, that our society embraces death.  <\/p>\n<p>After all, if there is no God who assigns value to human life, we really are nothing more than aimless clumps of cells without worth or eternal purpose. In the name of liberation and rationalism, we\u2019ve instructed our children, who have instructed their children, to believe this. You can be anything you want to be. You can do anything you want to do. And you don\u2019t answer to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to euphemizing the murder of the unborn, we\u2019ve cultivated an antisocial culture of screen addiction then used it to dispense violence as entertainment. Our men\u2019s primary encounters with women entail objectifying them through porn, and their ideas about sex are born from the same twisted source.<\/p>\n<p>Mothers and fathers leave each other when loving is too hard, instructing their children in self-prioritization. Under the guise of independence, parents instill disrespect for authority and peers. We\u2019ve discarded kindness in favor of \u201cspeak your mind\u201d and objective reality in favor of \u201cspeak your truth.\u201d When children misbehave, we diagnose and medicate them rather than discipline them. <\/p>\n<p>When we don\u2019t like something, we tear it down even if it doesn\u2019t belong to us. When we don\u2019t like political nominees, we lie about them and try to ruin their life. When we see somebody else victimized, we make the situation about ourselves and riot violently, up to and including murdering people who get in our way. <\/p>\n<p>We have set this scene, yet when the predictable script plays out, we ask, \u201cWhy do we keep letting this happen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neither rifle bans, tougher background checks, nor any other \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/25\/dont-surrender-to-do-somethingism-on-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">do something!<\/a>\u201d policy aimed at mass shootings will actually stop the carnage. We\u2019ve created a culture of death, and now we have to live in it.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Kylee Zempel is an assistant editor at The Federalist. She previously worked as the copy editor for the Washington Examiner magazine and as an editor and producer at National Geographic. She holds a B.S. in Communication Arts\/Speech and an A.S. in Criminal Justice and writes on topics including feminism and gender issues, religious liberty, and criminal justice. Follow her on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kyleezempel\">@kyleezempel<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the country reels over the Texas massacre, where 19 children and two adults were gunned down by a single shooter who was barely more than a child himself, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":514,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}