Apparently there's a problem with guns in America. Or at least that's what a bunch of people keep screaming about. If we can make laws about smoking in restaurants then why not restrict being allowed to carry a gun? After all, smoking slowly kills a person over the course of their life whereas guns have the potential to end a life instantly. If we are going to outlaw smoking for health reasons, then surely guns should follow as well.
It's a dumb argument. Guns aren't killing people, people are killing people. If guns are outlawed then criminals are still going to have guns and be a lot more confident when it comes time to do their dirty work.
That's not the point, though. At least, that's not my point.
Legislation against guns completely misses the mark. If I were to decide to wake up tomorrow morning and go on a rampage with a gun it wouldn't be the guns fault, it wouldn't be my body's fault, nor would it be my trigger finger's fault--it would be my fault.
This is why the founders of this nation made clear that without religion and morality being taught the nation would never be successful. This was for two reasons. First, if there is no God, then there is really no such thing as morality. Morality would be left in the eye of the beholder. And second, they believed that man had a natural proclivity towards sin.
Fast forwards a couple hundred years and we are within a culture pushing God and religion out of the public square. As a result there is no such thing as morality and man is thought to not require salvation from above. The paradigm shift has lead us to what we see today. A culture which will try its best to not call evil out for what it is, while begging for the government to save them from their obvious moral malady. A society where we can walk from one class and argue that good and evil do not exist, and then (ironically) decry in another those who actually call out evil in all its forms. But then this community goes home and the contradiction can be held no longer. Televisions are turned on, newspapers are opened, and something in the heart cries out that things are not how they should be. There really might be such a thing as evil in the world. But that couldn't be from the hearts of men who are basically good. No, it must instead be from our society, from the system. Fix the society, and fix the problems. Ergo, we get ideas like gun control.
Yet, control is not the answer and guns are not the problem. I am the problem. As are you. And the Safety is not of this world.
It's a dumb argument. Guns aren't killing people, people are killing people. If guns are outlawed then criminals are still going to have guns and be a lot more confident when it comes time to do their dirty work.
That's not the point, though. At least, that's not my point.
Legislation against guns completely misses the mark. If I were to decide to wake up tomorrow morning and go on a rampage with a gun it wouldn't be the guns fault, it wouldn't be my body's fault, nor would it be my trigger finger's fault--it would be my fault.
This is why the founders of this nation made clear that without religion and morality being taught the nation would never be successful. This was for two reasons. First, if there is no God, then there is really no such thing as morality. Morality would be left in the eye of the beholder. And second, they believed that man had a natural proclivity towards sin.
Fast forwards a couple hundred years and we are within a culture pushing God and religion out of the public square. As a result there is no such thing as morality and man is thought to not require salvation from above. The paradigm shift has lead us to what we see today. A culture which will try its best to not call evil out for what it is, while begging for the government to save them from their obvious moral malady. A society where we can walk from one class and argue that good and evil do not exist, and then (ironically) decry in another those who actually call out evil in all its forms. But then this community goes home and the contradiction can be held no longer. Televisions are turned on, newspapers are opened, and something in the heart cries out that things are not how they should be. There really might be such a thing as evil in the world. But that couldn't be from the hearts of men who are basically good. No, it must instead be from our society, from the system. Fix the society, and fix the problems. Ergo, we get ideas like gun control.
Yet, control is not the answer and guns are not the problem. I am the problem. As are you. And the Safety is not of this world.
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