If anyone still wonders why so many people are buying guns – let me to point to Baltimore as one reason.

If I was living there (which I wouldn’t. But anyway…) I’d be sitting in my living room with a 12-gauge shotgun on my lap protecting my home and family.

There’s too much of this stuff going on.

What the hell is happening?

Actually, let me answer that.

First of all, this is not about what happened to the man that died.
This is about the reaction to it.

A bunch of poorly raised thugs are having a field day breaking things.

I suspect a few of you just freaked out over that.

“Thug” is the new “N” word.

This whole “don’t use that word” thing is getting a bit out of hand.

It’s just a word – and it fits.
Get over it.

Actually, it’s a good word because that’s what they are.

The Rev. Jamal Bryant, and his very expensive suit, availed themselves of some air time Wednesday morning on CNN.

He puffed up his chest and said the President and the mayor are wrong, “These are not thugs, these are upset and frustrated children.”

I’d be proud if he adds me to that list with the President and Baltimore Mayor.

Millions of others too, I suspect.

That climbs to my Top Ten collection of the most ridiculous things I ever heard.

My kids never went out set fires and threw things at police when they were upset and felt like having a tantrum.
They went to their room and sat it out.

Maybe we have a parenting issue.
You think?

He goes on, ” ‘Thugs’ is the 21st century replacement for the n-word. And it is repulsive and it is offensive to every person who is a parent trying to raise children interpreting what’s taking place in this hour.”

What an asinine statement.
To be fair, maybe it was his suit talking and not his brain.

Sorry to pick on the dude – but it’s not repulsive to any parent I know so it certainly can’t be “every person”.

Is this guy the new Al Sharpton?
Or just stupid.

Is there a difference?

If there’s a riot going on and your kid isn’t home – that’s your fault.
If your kid is home but wants to be there instead – that’s your fault.

You need a kick in the butt.

You think any parents of those kids will see these pictures?

You think they’ll do anything?

I don’t have the answer either but I suspect not – otherwise they wouldn’t be out there throwing rocks in the first place.

When I was a kid my mother and hanai parents tried to get me to understand right and wrong.

I think they did a good job.
I least I never got arrested.

I certainly didn’t set fires and loot the nearby 7-Eleven.

Oh, wait a minute.
You say I wasn’t disadvantaged and dirt poor.

Except I was.

And I climbed out of that and so can they.
If they want to and with their parents guidance.

It’s time we stop the great American pastime of blaming everything and everyone else but ourselves for the crap that rains down.

I gotta get back to picking on the wife.
Damn this makes me too grumpy.