I hope that it will not take a personal tragedy to get those of you in denial to start taking this situation seriously. If you don't want to hear a rather long and sad story move on now. I tried for years to get my father to stop smoking. He was a very stubborn man and was determined he was not going to listen to others. He had terrible emphysema and suffered a massive heart attack. They were going to put a pacemaker in his chest but found that only 10% of his heart was functioning. It was just a matter of time. I was by his bedside the night before he died and he said to me: When everything is going OK, you don't hear those voices, now it's all I can hear. Remember Brady when Reagan got shot? He was a staunch conservative, strong supporter of the Second Amendment. When he got shot he had a conversion. He started working for sensible gun control.
I just retired from teaching. I used to tell my kids; some of you are standing on a railroad track and there's a train coming. People are screaming at you that there's a train coming - get off the track. But you're not listening. They can see what's coming, but you don't want to hear it. There's a train coming and you need to take it seriously. But you won't, and that makes me sad.
I just retired from teaching. I used to tell my kids; some of you are standing on a railroad track and there's a train coming. People are screaming at you that there's a train coming - get off the track. But you're not listening. They can see what's coming, but you don't want to hear it. There's a train coming and you need to take it seriously. But you won't, and that makes me sad.