As we all know the events in Aurora of this week have sent an electric shock through the hearts and minds of people around the world. Even in the continuing death rants of Afghanistan to the streets of Damascus, people were simply taken aback by the senseless, well planned attack on just simple people in a movie theater. Each time this happens, which is far too often, there is this strange rationalization that quickly triggers in the media and in we the people that, well, this is horrific, and it is, but it is more horrific or wrong that killings wearing a uniform in fighting for a cause or a country. I some times struggle with that but that is my struggle to have personally.
I have fired many weapons in my lifetime but have never embraced the lobbies chiming for removal of all guns for I do believe in that thing called the Constitution that grants the right to own such equipment. But when you begin to piece together the tapestry of the whole gun industry in a nonmilitary context, it really has become worthy of great concern. Gun shows, gun stores, individuals buy and sell very high caliber and high rate of speed weapons throughout this country at what seems impersonal discretion. The whole gun running Fast and Furious debacle still unfolding becomes part of the deplorable nature of the gun industry. When I read the statistics of gun ownership and the more deplorable death rates in this nation versus other G20 nations and the as deplorable reality of prison population explosions, it causes me to stop and really ponder where we have come in this world. The richest and most powerful nation on earth, ever, has making more weapons, selling more weapons, killing more of its citizens and jailing more of those citizens; those are the facts! So why?
There is no simple, short answer to that simple yet complex question. The blogs and FB walls are jammed with sentiment and fixes but I think the issue is much deeper and more highly complex than simply trying to get Congress to legislate a fix. I think I have seen too much example of the Government trying to fix anything. I believe the problem, the core, is the heart of Man that resides in our nation for it is at that heart things like this begin to trigger sinister thoughts of destructiveness. As normal humans, we cannot begin to understand the mind in its innate ability to ponder, to rationalize and to executes such atrocities. But we can know that at the root of this train wreck is the absence of allowing a God that loves us to see the light of day of spiritual energy.
I tend not to "preach" on these pages but rather to point out the spiritual context of the issues of our world. This is just too blatant a pulpit not to stand behind for a few moments. Man will never explain what happened in Columbine nor Aurora for it is inexplicable but it happened and there will be more. There is always that fringe that will see this as an opportunity and challenge to not only replicate but to surpass a next event; that you can know. I believe more and more that as this nation has turned further away from the very principles upon which this nation was founded and thus away from the God-sanctioned government foundations we see too clearly today, I cannot help but believe that God is very disappointed in His Creation and is allowing us, His people, to get a flavor of life without Him. In other words, I believe God is standing aside to give us a taste of how ruinous life can truly become without him in hopes that We the People and We the Nation will turn back to Him.
There is much I may not know and much you may not agree with in my comments but there are some rudimentary things I will stake my life and soul on. One of those is that the same God that created Man loves that creation and wants the best but He also crafted into Man the ability and capability to choose. Bad choices lead to bad decisions which lead to bad things. What we are witnessing is the result of more and more bad choices at a personal and national level.
There will be much yelling for Congress to fix this by seizing guns, stopping sales, etc, but it will be in vain for we can study Prohibition in the 1920s and see how ineffective that approach is. This is a heart issue and thus a spiritual issue. This world is spinning in many directions in far too many vectors but that is what happens when Man is assumes command. We need you God!
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