In the utopian fantasyland of leftism, doing away with guns will do away with violent crime.
Such as the violent crime that occurred last month at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Ct. where 20 children and six adults were gunned down by Adam Lanza. And the violent crime that occurred last summer in a North Aurora, Co. theater where 12 people were shot to death by James Holmes. During the same week that the Sandy Hook tragedy occurred, another mass murder occurred at a Primary School located in China. That tragedy involved the deaths of 22 children, although it received scant attention from the U.S. news media.
That's because the mass murder that occurred in China was committed by a man who wielded a knife rather than a gun. Since guns are outlawed in China, the man had to make do with a knife to commit mass murder. But mass murder he did commit.
When he was pressed about those who prefer to use knives to commit murder, the buffoonish Al Sharpton, who masquerades as an ordained minister replied that knife control regulations should be considered.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/randy-hall/2013/01/02/al-sharpton-claims-knife-control-may-follow-restrictions-guns
And so it goes with leftists who continually ignore sin as the root cause of moral depravity. Instead, leftists love to attribute the consequences of sin such as violence, crime, drug, gambling and alcohol addictions to various social pathologies such as poverty, racism, bad schools, homophobia, xenophobia, bigotry, dysfunctional families, sexual abuse etc. In their never ending quest to create a secular paradise on earth, leftists believe that they can legislate their way to peace and prosperity via bigger and more intrusive government.
A large part of that vision involves doing away with guns. But that's a powerful delusion of the highest order. For example, the city of Chicago has some of the strictest handgun laws in the United States. And yet Chicago led the nation's big cities in 2012 with over 500 homicides, the majority of them committed by--you guessed it--handguns. Criminals don't obey laws and Chicago has an army of criminals--many of them street gang members--who are heavily armed.
But screaming for gun control is a lot easier than calling for moral accountability. The former is politically correct and inoffensive while the latter involves challenging people to become responsible for their own actions and not continually blame their failings on others.
That also includes not having children out of wedlock; getting married, raising children to honor and respect authority; teaching them the clear difference between right and wrong and instituting tough discipline when it's called for. That's what helps create a healthy society rather than the passage of endless laws that merely restrict freedoms and don't change human hearts.
There is simply no substitute for the fear of God and the knowledge of his laws and commandments. When that doesn't exist, this is what people inevitably become, according to the apostle Paul: "Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless." (Romans 1:28-31)
Paul wrote that epistle 2,000 years ago. Human nature never changes. Apart from God, men become utterly depraved. The antidote is being reborn again unto God through faith in His Son Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, that's beneath the dignity of arrogant and evil men who think that they can legislate their own brand of peculiar, secular morality sans a Holy God.
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