The total shock of the horrific gun accident brings to mind the prophetic words of singer/songwriter Bob Dylan who wrote a song called "Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" back in 1962 and first performed it at a Hootenanny at Carnegie Hall organized by the late great Pete Seeger and was recorded on his second album "The Free-Wheelin' Bob Dylan":
In these lyrics, the question is first asked "Where have you been my blue-eyed son? Then "What did you see my blue-eyed son?"
In his answer, he says, "I SAW GUNS AND SHARP SWORDS IN THE HANDS OF YOUNG CHILDREN" and then the chorus proclaims "It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall."
Speaking as a "Baby-boomer" looking back over 50 years, I remember that it was difficult at that time to envision what would happen in the future and to see what was really coming.
As Tommy Christopher has recounted this current event of the accidental death of the gun instructor, there were "Guns...in the hands of young children".
Bob Dylan's "Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" predicted this back in 1962. The message of this music portrays much of what is indicative of these times.
This is only one example of how the expressions of the writings and songs of the 1960's was the "looking glass" of the "baby-boomers" and now be seen as a shocking reality.
The truth of the "Hard Rain" has arrived once again.
