I do grieve for the families who have lost the presence of their
loves ones, children and adults: I am comforted in the knowledge and testimony
from the Gospel of Jesus Christ that these little children are in the arms of
God, and that in His mercy there is still an opportunity for these families to
be reunited; that the sad and confused boy who accomplished this evil is now
where he can, if he is willing, begin to work through his issues without the confusion
caused by a potentially malfunctioning body.
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That said:
It seems to me that some common threads on this sort of
happening are:
“I’M HURT AND YOU DID NOT LISTEN TO ME. NOW YOU WILL LISTEN,
AND YOU WILL FEEL THE KIND OF HURT I HAVE HAD TO ENDURE.”
“LOOK AT ME, I AM NOW GETTING MY FAME AND IMMORTALITY IN THE
MEDIA.”
To the first: more people need to learn and apply the Gospel
of Jesus Christ in its Restored Fullness. Also people need to listen better to
people like this who are crying out for help, whether in their isolation or
accomplished counseling.
To the second: the media needs to stop crowing about who
does this, to stop making idols and whipping boys of the methods and costumes
and weapons that are more and more often used in these activities. Stop aggrandizing
them.
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Now the aftermath:
The High Priest of the God of Government threw a press
conference and cried while ‘leading the country in mourning.’
Err… sorry, The Presid… Sorry again, nobody uses that title
for him.
OBAMA made a statement and showed solidarity with the
countries confusion and grief.
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The pundits are espousing the psychobabble of the secular
who are seeking to ‘make sense’ of what has happened.
If they understood the Gospel of Jesus Christ, they would
understand that people are free to choose for themselves, and some times they
choose evil. GOD who made them in HIS image will be just and merciful to them
in HIS time and place, giving them time to repent and make amends.
Of us it is not commanded to understand, but is commanded to forgive: to
forgive and love the sinner, and to hate the sin and leave its just recompense
to Just Laws, and when they fail to leave it to GOD.
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The usual suspects are crowing for more gun control,
pointing out gleefully about the make of the guns that accomplished this deed.
Of course if the guy who did this had been captive within an
SUV as it drove through the school running down its victims, would these same
pundits be calling for car control?
Would we be hearing all about the make and model of the villainous
SUV?
How we need to be removing these dangerous SUV’s from the
streets?
How about his clothes: what brand of shoes was he wearing? Might
that have lead to this? Maybe we need shoe control?
You want a dialogue on ‘gun control’?
My starting points:
0-Remove all ‘Gun Free Zones’ from public property.
0a-Where Public Property Security Cordons are established,
simply have all weapons that pass through be checked for being properly and
safely carried.
1-Cause all willing citizens to openly carry their weapon(s)
of choice where ever they want, dependent on whether they have properly discharged
their rite of serving on a Jury, criminal record, and limited only by private property owners.
1a-Require all teachers to be armed and certified by local
law enforcement in their competence.
2-Allow all willing resident aliens to apply for the same.
3-Cause immediate confinement for being an invading combatant
for any illegal alien found possessing a weapon.
That is my opening position. If I were going to engage in
the same style of dialogue as the current regime in the White House, that would
be my final position.
