Pied pipers

Looking at the buffoons trying to act their way to the White House and the people lining up behind them like children following the Pied Piper to some imagined better place I wonder what the world is coming to.

I have listened to people moaning about airport security for years now. They don't want it. Yet these same people are terrified that a random immigrant might hurt them in their own neighborhoods.

They don't like it when cigarette smoking is restricted, but they want Syrians restricted. It appears that sure fire lung disease is more desirable than the slim possibility that a radical may make it through the intense security all immigrants must go through to get in here.

They want to carry their guns around openly everywhere and here I just shudder. I imagine myself at a public event where some yayhoo thinks there is a threat and suddenly I find myself in the middle of a gun fight where friendly fire is just as life threatening as the other kinds.

It is a fine line to protect people without restricting freedom, but life is not as simple as some people seem to want to believe.