By Clint Younts
I give up! I used to believe the majority of Americans were fairly intelligent and know what’s right and what isn’t. Over the past few months, I have watched thousands of misguided souls hovering over a venomous presidential candidate like a flock of buzzards with a hankering for a taste of bile. I’ve watched my southern heritage get plowed up and paved over. Every night I hear news of somebody holding a gun and a grudge taking innocent lives while our presidential candidates are griping about emails and Trump University. I can’t help but wonder what has happened to common sense here in America. Has some nasty virus swept over this country leaving millions with tunnel vision and a deaf ear?
Just when I finally get my blood pressure down with the help of my cardiologist, Dr. Jack Daniels, I see numerous reports on TV and the internet about this event up in the Cincinnati zoo. Y’all know the story. A three-year-old boy clambers into the gorilla enclosure, and in order to save the boy, the gorilla had to be shot. The mass media is calling this a tragedy. Thousands of folks wearing poorly-fitted panties are going ape-excrement over the killing of the 400-pound male gorilla, demanding that the boy’s parents and the zoo officials be punished. When the people of this country are more concerned over the life of a wild animal than the life of a small boy, then we have a serious problem here.
