When Adulthood Leaves the Room

A studio lights up after days on the run, and Peter Vazquez comes in with a question that does not care about your politics: when did we start confusing adulthood with age? Somewhere along the way, a paper cut became a lawsuit, a feeling became a policy, and disorder started wearing a halo.

 

Stephen Williford joins the line like a man who has seen what evil looks for. He does not sell fear. He argues for guardianship. If we can post armed protection over money and politicians, why do we leave children and worshippers as the softest target in town?

 

Trained, concealed staff. Church safety teams. Deterrence that forces a predator to reconsider. The conversation walks through North Carolina’s HB193 revisions, the tug-of-war with anti-freedom governors, and the larger fight: reciprocity, constitutional carry, and dismantling the ancient tricks of the NFA that turned rights into paperwork.

 

Then the tone shifts from bullets to beliefs. DawnMarie Alexander Boursiquot of Project 21 enters with a different kind of warning: a nation cannot survive on grievance as a personality. She names the new religion plainly, performing trauma, outsourcing responsibility, medicating pain instead of treating the wound.

 

From the arguments around Dr. King’s legacy and Chad O. Jackson’s documentaries, to marijuana policy and the quiet money-machine behind “compassion,” she calls for something unfashionable: a moral center.

 

Christmas is near. Noise is everywhere. Discernment is rare. This hour insists on one idea: liberty survives only where responsibility still has a home.