Shootings Around America

Lessons to be Learned!

Hopefully, we will learn some valuable lessons from the recent mall shooting in Omaha, Nebraska and the church shooting in Colorado Springs.

(1) Gun control is not the answer. Free exercise of the right to bear arms for any citizen who qualifies is the greatest deterrent to crime. This was true at the time of our nations’ founding and it is even truer today. The only people who are “controlled” under gun-control laws are law abiding citizens. Criminals and “crackpots” will always find a way to obtain guns by hook or by crook by golly. We need more, not less, armed citizens to discourage or to stop the Robert Hawkins or the Matthew Murrays in their tracks. Where all guns are banned like the Virginia Polytechnic Institute a killer can have a field day killing who he pleases.

The antidote to increasing crime is to encourage citizens to take up arms and to learn the proper respect for and use of guns as the ultimate self-defense technique.

(2) No place is sacred anymore, not even our churches. In an ever secularized, and growing pagan America we are becoming like many other godless nations around and before us. This situation is the direct result of the attempt by anti-American and anti-Christian forces to “confine” or banish God to the stained glass buildings on Sunday and let the fanatics have their our of power . . . We have kicked Him out of the schools, courtrooms, government, businesses and public square. We daily violate His precepts and principles for successful living and we wonder why this violence is happening to us in our school houses, street corners, our shopping malls and in now even in our houses of worship!

The antidote is, as a nation as individuals, to again acknowledge God and to encourage the right to express the freedom of worship and religion everywhere. We as a society must mitigate and repair the damage that the fallacious “separation of church and state” concept and doctrine has caused America in recent decades. God must be brought back to a nation that openly and proudly calls itself, “One Nation Under God.” We need to take that slogan off the paper and put it into our everyday lives and actions

(3) We have allowed the culture of death to grip our society. Since 1973 and even earlier we have devalued human life through the erroneous belief that human beings are mere animals, the product of random chance and evolutionary processes. The abhorrent practice of abortion and the vain, senseless and fruitless pursuit of embryonic stem cell research are examples of devaluing life. As a society we have allowed the academic elite to lead us astray in believing man the end all and be all. We have forgotten that all our rights come from God.

The antidote is to pass the life begins at conception act languishing in congress and to begin again to respect human life from birth until natural death.

These are but a few of the many lessons must learn and take to heart from all of these recent tragedies. God is giving us a second chance. We need to turn away from the broad path that is leading us to sure destruction and must get back on the narrow way that leads to life, both as a nation and individually.