GUNS DON'T KILL...
HATRED OF GOD DOES

So almost weekly it seems that we hear about some sort mass shooting at a school, a movie theater, a mall, etc... After every one of these shootings the politicians get on their soap box and lecture us about how we need more gun restrictions. They continually try to convince the law abiding public that if we restrict those who abide by the law, then these shootings won't happen as often.

I wonder how they come to this conclusion, especially when the city of Chicago has more gun restrictions than any other city in America, yet is among the worst in gun violence. It seems to me that more gun laws give criminals the freedom to kill more people. It seems to me if more people had the freedom to carry wherever, that if someone did decide to start shooting people, they would not get very far.

The problem really has nothing to do with how many laws we have or don't have that restrict guns. If we travel back in time to the 1940's and 1950's, there were no mass shootings happening. Yes, we had more freedom to carry weapons back then, but that really was not the reason shootings didn't occur like they do today. The reason shootings didn't occur back then like they do today, is because our culture maintained reverence for the God of the Bible. The morality of the one true living God, was what our nation professed to live by back then. I know we fell way short of that standard, but the hatred and irreverence for God we see today certainly was held no prominence back then.

Our culture has become a culture of sex and death. We have murdered 60 million babies since 1973, we have re-defined marriage to include homosexual unions. We have taught our children that they evolved from apes. We have outlawed religious speech and expression in many ways. We have preached tolerance for everything except for Biblical Christianity. We allow our kids to watch violence on TV, and play video games that de-sensitize them to death and violence. We as a culture have become Biblically illiterate, yet we are quick to ridicule and look down upon those who do hold to the Bible as being the word of God.

All of these things and much more has caused our culture to embrace the depravity that dwells within us that up until a few decades ago, was suppressed by the influence the Bible had over our culture. If there is no real purpose in life, if there is no moral authority, and no consequence for evil, then the it is not surprising that we see so much evil running rampant.

If we really want to reverse the curse our nation is under, we need to repent and look beyond ourselves to the God of righteousness, and cry out for His mercy. He is in control of every one of these shootings, and can stop them, but He chooses not to, because we have chosen to turn away from Him.