Posted at RenewAmerica
The bestial act played out Friday last in the bucolic community of Newtown, Connecticut returns the nation to the question why? Why would such an act occur? What drives a young man to so horrific a crime?
If one is open to the truth the answer is quite
simple —As a culture, we have assigned souls to guns while deemphasizing the
souls of children.
It is the guns in our society not the lack of
human feeling we are fostering in an unbelieving, post-Christian youth culture,
that bear the responsibility of tragedies like the one in Newtown.
A secular culture cannot take in the fact that
it is not enough to have a morality unattached to something greater than
oneself. This detachment is illustrated by President Obama shedding a tear for
the victims of a madman, children slaughtered in what is supposed to be the
safest of environments, the classroom. Yet, he fervently advocates for a
medical procedure that leads to the wholesale slaughter of some 3,200 children
a day in what is supposed to be the
safest place for a child, a mother’s womb.
Take for example a couple visits the doctor and
has it confirmed they are expecting a child, their second. They bristle with
excitement while telling their oldest they are about to have a sibling. The
first child hears this news with much rejoicing, because “Inside Mommy is my
new baby brother or sister”!
Now that same child overhears Mommy talking to a
friend who is also pregnant who relates that she is going to terminate her
pregnancy. The child later asks Mommy what that means—If the mother were to
share the realities of abortion with her child, the child would be
revolted.
“Doesn’t Mrs. So and So love her baby like you
love our new baby Mommy?” Again, if the mother shares the truth of what
motivates people to choose abortion, in that child’s mind, doesn’t human life
become less precious? When weighed against a warped pragmatism, a baby’s life
has just become less important than whatever motivated the other mother to come
to the decision abortion is a better “choice” than human life.
If
as a culture we do not uphold the sanctity of life at every stage, why bother
at any stage? This is the sometimes, unconscious thought process that is
impossible for many of our youth to ignore, particularly if they are
emotionally or mentally unstable. Frankly, this is the natural thought process
of anyone who thinks logically really. It’s the reason sane, rational people
oppose unfettered abortion on demand.
Despite the convoluted thinking of sportscasters
and sports writers like Bob Costas and Jason Whitlock commenting on the Jovan
Belcher murder/suicide, America’s gun culture is not the problem; it is our
anti-people culture that drives the Adam Lanza’s of the world. The desire for
elements in our society with far too much influence, to advance the idea that
human life is no more important than an individual’s personal choice and oftentimes
less important than the earth itself.
Whenever we have a mass shooting, the left
immediately begins a coordinated tirade against an armed American citizenry.
Today, America vilifies the tool as if the tool is the motivator. That childish
thought process is fueled by a need to deny the inherent flaws in human nature,
flaws that are exacerbated if not counteracted by an obligation to a law giving
Creator - a Creator the liberals fight without ceasing to marginalize.
Putting aside the logical truth that the real problem leading to the all too prevalent incidents like Newtown is a lack of Christian morality amongst our youth—We have the pragmatic reality that the problem is a restriction on guns, rather than the guns themselves.
The left hates the argument that if the
teachers, or another adult were armed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Mr.
Lanza’s attack may have been halted and lives saved. Tyrants with guns will
always oppress the unarmed. Those who cry for fewer guns in the hands of a
responsible citizenry rush headlong towards tyranny’s dreaded embrace.
We have bred the sense of duty, the
responsibility of gun ownership in the pursuit of securing American society
from the tyranny of criminals and politicians out of the American psyche. A
government that seeks to limit a citizen’s ability to protect his or her own community
by being armed is one of a suspicious nature.
Either such a government seeks a disarmed citizenry
to exert it’s will on the people, or it is a government populated with fools
detached from reality.
The Founders of this great nation were neither.
Thomas Jefferson in his letter to Justice John Cartwright on June 5, 1824 said:
“The constitutions of most of our States
assert that all power is inherent in the people; that … it is their right and
duty to be at all times arme[d]."
In a society like ours, the primary function of
a firearm, where one does not need to wrest a living from the land, is
protection. Not just personal protection, but the duty to protect society from
tyrants like Mr. Lanza and others who prey upon elementary schools, movie theaters,
college campuses to do their evil, or anywhere gun restrictions are greatest.
As an American an armed citizen has the duty to
“secure the blessings of liberty.” This is a vow meant for “We the people,” not
the government. When government seeks to restrict the Constitution it ceases to
be “the people” and is an entity separate from the people.
Tyranny isn’t ended with platitudes and good
intent alone. It takes the ability to mete out justice through the equal
strength of arms. Otherwise you and I are just dead meat. American men used to
understand that concept. However, of
late, liberal “progressivism” has fostered the idea that we are victims who
should not resist evil ourselves, rather leave the resistance to others. That
is an exceedingly dangerous mindset.
Most citizens, unfortunately, do not know that
the “others” that include law enforcement and government are not obligated to
protect Americans from crime. Moreover, officers of the law are seldom around
when crimes occur.
America’s anti-gun culture, as propagated by the
Democrat party and American liberalism in general is not inspired by a desire
for peace, peace must be secured--It is ignorance and cowardice that is the
inspiration when spouted by the left's puppets. It is tyranny when ordered by the
puppet masters in government and the media.
In a letter to his fifteen-year-old nephew,
Peter Carr, Thomas Jefferson gave him this advice regarding his exercise:
[I]
advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives
boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball
and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character
on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.
What changed in our society when most today
would prohibit a fifteen-year-old of possessing, or carrying a gun? Let alone
suggesting that responsible gun ownership “stamps character on the mind.” That is a question that wants looking into,
not whether semi-automatic rifles should be readily available.
I'll end with a few words from the ultimate Law
Giver who knew the nature of the world He was sending His beloved disciples
forth into, the world He was about to make the ultimate sacrifice for. Jesus told them to make provision for the
more dangerous mission they faced when they left the close confines of their
own lands with these words:
And he said unto them, when I sent you without
purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, nothing. Then
said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise
his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one (
Luke 22:35, 36).
Digital Publius
