Extremism and Ensuing Anarchy

 North Carolina does not adhere to many common sense practices.  When trying to deduce why Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger wants to allow eighteen year olds to carry a concealed handgun, ask yourself why the states or the nation as a whole never have outlawed holding a smartphone while driving.  If Mr. Marshall, the drivers education teacher at Terry Sanford High School, were still alive he would be blunt.  So would have been Percy Warren.  Driving an automobile is a full time responsibility.  Your requirement when operating a motor vehicle is to watch the road, not your phone.  How these requirements have been diluted is not dissimilar to how Washington eases regulation on corporate America.  They weaken the agency by withholding their money.  Sound familiar?  DOGE.  When you drive a vehicle you need to be seen by other drivers, and you need to see other drivers.  There should be no hiding behind tinted windows.  Recently two elected officials have steered North Carolina's extremist/anarchist bent back to logic.  Governor Josh Stein for the first time criticized vape shops and what they represent.  Americans have been under siege, and it was not just Covid.  It would seem North Carolina has a death wish, or at least a desire for chaos.  Let's allow any eighteen year old to tuck a .380 into their pocket before they run to the store.  You can open carry in North Carolina, but this law does keep me from doing that.  When I do carry I tend to conceal, but I am sixty-two years old.  Eight hours of gun training and a written permit are the appropriate means to conceal carry.  It has been proven over and over again how misguided youth are prone to murderous violence when guns readily are available.  Making it is easier is not the right answer, nor is offering addictive tobacco products to vulnerable and unhappy teens.  We have been exploiting our youth for so long, we have forgotten what it is to be Christian.  Marty McCarry, the acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs, was forthright in his condemnation of ultra-processes foods.  Almost everything we eat today is not fresh nor nutritious.  It is the main cause of obesity.  To hear these two men speak with logic and candor was refreshing.