Dec 24, 2012
from Rapture Ready blog
Someday They Will Have All Your Guns
It has long been my policy never to rush into stating my reaction to a
news event. I find it's important to allow the dust to settle before
making any prophetic commentary. This is the case concerning the
shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
I can't recall a time when the facts on a news story have changed so
frequently. The day of the attack, the liberal media went absolutely
bonkers. The gunman's name was Ryan, then it was changed to Adam. The
mother was shot at home, then at school, and then back at home. First,
there were two shooters and then there was one.
The reason the liberal media was spitting out constantly-changing data
was because they were manifesting their excitement at the opportunity to
use another mass murder event to advance their agenda. You certainly
didn't see the same level of caution in reporting that was used with the
September 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya. In that
attack, the mainstream media was steadfast in waiting to make sure all
the facts were straight.
The press has been doing its best to set the tone on the debate. They
have been very aggressive in portraying gun rights activists as
villains. CNN's Piers Morgan tore into guest Larry Pratt, the executive
director of Gun Owners of America, calling him "an unbelievably stupid
man" who's "dangerous," concluding the interview by saying, "You shame
your country." ABC News saw a few protests outside the NRA's Fairfax,
Virginia, headquarters as a growing, "angry crowd."
I seriously doubt the Sandy Hook shooting will provide enough momentum
for any immediate ban on major categories of weapons. The NRA and other
supporters of the second amendment are a very powerful force in American
politics. President Obama gave the best indication that little will
happen in the short run when he appointed VP Joe Biden to head a
committee that would study the issue.
The gun rights lobby needs to be more worried about a progressive effort
to make it harder to own and access a gun. This has already been the
preferred method of attacking all our other civil liberties.
I think the greatest factor that puts gun ownership at risk is the
decline in morality. If we don't have a moral foundation in this nation,
I don't see how we can expect to maintain our Second-Amendment rights.
If we become a land of lawless, the feds will be forced to clamp down.
We still do quite well for a nation that has more outlets that sell
firearms than franchises of the McDonald's Corp.
You don't see gun stores in the Middle East because Arab society would
disintegrate if the average person could buy an assault rifle at the
local market. When Iraq was liberated from the iron rule of Saddam
Hussein, the Sunni and Shiite population instantly began killing each
other with weapons they smuggled into the country.
We are steadily becoming a society that needs Big Brother to protect us
from ourselves. One of the best indications of creeping oversight is the
reduced access to explosives. There was once a time when you could go
to local hardware store and buy a case of dynamite. Today, you can't
even buy a large stock of fertilizer, the key ingredient in a homemade
explosive, without getting the attention of Homeland Security.
The liberal media brought up all kinds of options for dealing with the
problem of gun violence. I don't recall reading any article that
addresses the declining moral values of our nation. When you find
yourself walking into a swamp, with every step forward causing you to
sink deeper into the muck, the best thing to do is to turn around and
retrace your steps. Liberals don't want to go back to the old morality
because they still have faith in the one they helped author.
Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, in an appearance
Fox News' Neil Cavuto show, suggested we try God's way: "It's an
interesting thing. We ask why there's violence in our schools, but we
have systematically removed God from our schools. Should we be so
surprised that schools would become a place of carnage? Because we've
made it a place where we don't want to talk about eternity, life, what
responsibility means, accountability — that we're not just going to have
be accountable to the police if they catch us, but one day we stand
before a holy God in judgment."
In the past week, I've had several conversations with friends over the
possibility of new restrictions on gun ownership, and several times the
"from my cold, dead hands" slogan popularized by Charlton Heston was
invoked. One way or another, I'm afraid the government is going to take
away everyone's guns. If they need to pry them away from your dead hand,
then "so be it" would be the reaction of the coming authoritarian world
government. We Christians have a much better option: the government
will be able to take our guns because someday soon we will no longer
need them.
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to
his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an
inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in
heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a
salvation ready to be revealed in the last time" (1 Peter 1:3-5).
--Todd
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