How, they ask, can these things take place?
After the "wild west" shoot out that occurred in Dallas last night, where eleven police officers were shot, they will be asking the question again.
Other nations in the civilized world experience strife and civil disorder: name a country and you will be able to point to trouble in it's history. However, there is one factor above all others that contributes to the present mayhem. It is this. The whole nation is awash with guns. From North to South, East to West, America is an armed camp with fire arms of every description.
Half a billion privately owned weapons for a population of 350 million. Do the math
In other nations pikes and staves may be used in a civil disturbance.
Not in America where, as we saw last night in Dallas, snipers shot from darkened roof tops to kill police officers in light summer uniforms.
Speaking this morning from Europe, President Obama called for calm and the urgent need to bring "our country together".
Words easily spoken, but the legislation that has been passed in the last twenty years has had the opposite effect. Legislation that has widened the fractures in society. Laws that have eliminated the Christian faith from the classroom, from the court room and from the workplace. Laws to end life in the mother's womb. Laws that enable assisted suicide. Laws that aggressively promote the abhorrent lifestyle of homo-sexuality, and now the President calls for PRAYERS for national unity.
From out of the wafting clouds of gun smoke I seem to hear voice saying "Physician heal THYSELF"
Ian
No comments:
Post a Comment