Treating Symptoms Instead of Causes

Yet another vain anti-gun protest

Having observed leftists for many years, I'm still amazed at how they're able to (1) manufacture problems; (2) blame these problems on their opponents and (3) offer misguided solutions to these problems that just create new problems.

Case in point--gun violence. Leftists blame the increasing gun violence in America on the availability of firearms. And they demonize the NRA (National Rifle Association) as well as anyone who supports the Second Amendment that gives American citizens their constitutional right to possess firearms. 

Leftists claim that gun violence can be solved simply by restricting or even revoking the Second Amendment. Under that scenario, only law enforcement officers and the military would be legally allowed to possess firearms.

One major problem with gun control laws is that they don't work. Chicago has banned handguns for many years, and yet that city led the nation in handgun homicides last year. Criminals don't obey laws, and they find a plethora of sources to acquire guns. Handgun laws merely prevent law-abiding citizens from defending themselves against these thugs.

But the real problem here--created by leftists--isn't guns, it's a debased culture that rejects moral absolutes and promotes rebellion, violence, debauchery and immorality. The growth of violent street-gangs throughout America and much of the western world can be traced to the American media and entertainment industry that has glorified the gang culture along with its gun violence, drugs, immorality and hedonism. 

Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of Hollywood and the American media knows that these industries are controlled by amoral leftists who are predominantly atheists.  These people hate religious people (fundamental Christians) and see them as ignorant buffoons who are racist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic and anti-science. Many of the wealthy rap artists who promote murder, violence and misogynistic filth through their music are bankrolled by leftists who own and operate the major record companies.

And it was leftists such as the late President Lyndon Johnson who created the enormous welfare state in the 1960s with his Great Society Program that was supposed to eradicate poverty and reduce crime through government entitlements. Instead, Johnson's program ruined incentive, destroyed families, expanded poverty and made millions of poor people hopelessly dependent upon big government for their survival. And yet leftists continue to deny the obvious while blaming high poverty and crime rates on "racism."

Nearly 2,000 years ago, the apostle Paul revealed this prophecy concerning the last days:  "But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.  People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,  without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,  treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God." (2 Timothy 3:1-4)

We're seeing the fulfillment of that prophecy today. Why is it being fulfilled? Because we live in a world controlled by leftists who don't believe in God and don't believe that sin is the cause of mankind's woes rather than the symptoms of sin such as poverty, racism, gun violence etc.