Another shooting, another battle of tighter gun control or better background checks. Who is right and who is wrong, or is it even that simple? I was in high school when we all heard of Columbine. Do you remember? If not, or in case you missed it, they are making a movie about it so you can see it all over again. But the point of this entry is to ask what is the answer. Well, what is the answer?
Let us put a few things into perspective first. As I sit here this evening I am watching The Patriot with Mel Gibson. Maybe you have seen it, it is about the revolutionary war. A different time in America's history when men and women had to fight a different fight. Not about gun control, or abortion, or public school versus home school, but independence, the right to govern oneself. A fight to honor the God given right of all men to worship God, live in peace, and raise their families.
What, you may ask, is the point between that and a school shooting in Florida? Just this. Where is God? Some of you may have heard the saying about God being a gentleman and when we asked him to leave from all areas of society then he left, so I am not going to rehash that here. What I am going to say is this. My grandfather had several guns. The only ones to fear were the deer and the turkey. Many who live in the woods of this country have enough guns to form their own militias and yet the only creatures to fear are the wildlife that come around during hunting season.
Do not dare to accuse me of being insensitive at this time either. I have my own children. I would be beside myself if this happened to any of my children, but my question again is this, where is God? During the revolutionary war everyone had a gun in their home, where are the records of the mass shootings, the schools, or the shopping centers? I am not a historian and I don't claim to be but I do know that when a society honors God, freedom, and the value of life, then guns do not magically get up and shoot people.
We have spent several decades giving up our rights to speak, giving up our rights to worship, killing our babies brutally before they are even given the right to breath and then when a shooting happens we run and think that tighter laws, less freedom, and more background checks are the answer. I guess all the obvious history before us of God in our schools, prayer in public arenas, and the very obvious of less mass shootings is to clear that we just can't see it. We must be so bright as evolution would say we are getting smarter that the obvious is obviously not obvious.
If you couldn't tell the obvious I was being sarcastic. So in closing what is the answer? What again was the question, where is God? He is stepped out of the picture waiting for us to call on him. Husbands need to call him back into their homes and lives. School principles need to call him back into the halls, pastors, yes I said pastors, need to call him back into their churches. In short, we need God to be in our hearts and in our lives. The more we devalue human life, the more we pass the blame for our actions to everyone around us, the more our legislation will take the place of our morality, and of course, without a standard, their can be no morality to legislate. We will continue to drown in our own festering sewage of decay and manure until we get down on our knees before God, repent of our sins, and begin to value the human life that was created in the image of God. Do this and the shootings will eventually stop, do it not and more than likely they will only get worse. What are we going to decide? Tighter gun control, or God?
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