Posted on 11/20/2017 3:57:09 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
As the outrage, sadness and shock of the Las Vegas and Sutherland Springs Baptist Church shootings fade, we find ourselves back in a spot where a familiar political and cultural battle has been occurring.
On one side you have the anti-gun crowd, Democrats primarily, supported by an overwhelming majority of mainstream news people.
The opposing side gives us the Second Amendment/pro-gun community, Republicans primarily, supported by the NRA and, besides Fox News, only a handful of conservative websites and bloggers like me.
In my humble opinion, this debate goes back to religion, or rather the start of the removal of it from society. Yes, I know it’s a heated-enough discussion when debating gun rights, and that bringing God into it will only add fuel to the fire.
However, it’s no secret that the Democratic Party in the last two decades has been steering heavily to the left. This new direction is that of secularism. If there’s any doubt, just remember that during the Hillary-fixed, Bernie-betraying Democratic National Convention, a Christian minister was heckled and in 2012 God was booed.
By removing God from your beliefs and from any discussion, you remove the premise of good and evil. Drawing on that, evil is removed as an option when the cause of these spree killings is discussed. Essentially, you establish that since men are committing these heinous acts, only more laws can stop these events.
Our nation was founded on, and then guided by, Christian principles for its first two centuries. In the decades after World War II, and exponentially in the last 30 years, there has been a concerted effort to remove religion and moral values from government and society. Although the First Amendment states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,”
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I’m more than glad to do my part. God bless America
There is no guarantee a good guy with a gun can prevail over an armed murderer, but there’s a near 100% chance an unarmed good guy cannot prevail over an armed bad guy.
If the 6 dead adults at Sandy Hook could have a do-over, you can bet they would vote to have been armed.
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