In Chicago, over Memorial Day Weekend, 2022, police received 32 gunfire reports, 47 people shot, 9 dead. Just another weekend in the Windy City. But the report from Uvalde, Texas, 19 children and two teachers as statistics, rattled the nation’s nerves. San Diego U/T, 6/1/22
Strident demands immediately called for gun control, adding to the backlog of laws already on the books and enforced. Gun stores, meanwhile, have seen an increase in sales since Covid-19. The apparently incompetent response of police to persistent appeals from children inside the school in Uvalde undoubtedly increased the causality list. Now…under public pressure, will every school build fences around their property and secure entrances with lock and key? And how did anyone get on the school grounds in Uvalde with a gun without being challenged before entering the classrooms? In an ongoing efforts of self-diagnosis, we blame poverty—that catch-all excuse for crime; lack of jobs—despite the multiple numbers of companies HIRING; the lack of government programs—despite multiple layers of bureaucracies devoted to social programs; the “gun culture”—as if guns and knives shoot and throw themselves as weapons. We certainly wear T-shirts displacing victims names and faces. We build makeshift memorials and place teddy bears and flowers as peace offerings to the dead. We weep and mourn and hug each other, seeking comfort in our loss. And so on. Count on it. Americans will do everything BUT Repent of our self-will, our hubris, our base instincts that invariably drive us to lust and violence, greed and pride. Indeed, everything BUT repent of our rejection of God in Christ! That we will not do…YET. We’re still trusting politicians to devise programs that turn us all into model citizens…YET. And trusting technology to devise lifestyles that inspire the love we know we cannot live without, while refusing to accept it in God’s Christ…YET. But GOD has yet to hit us with blows that bring us to our knees in his Son’s Presence. And all who REALLY want the solution to our moral depravity—where every effort without God is praised and every effort for God is condemned—should pray they will speedily fall. For that will be God’s opportunity to turn us TO HIM, From Ourselves, our Degrees, our Pride, our Materialism and Secularism, etc. And should anyone spit in God’s face by saying he’s unjust to reduce us to helplessness just to have occasion to reach us:
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Mike Brown
9/6/2022 02:32:11 pm
Well said as always Virgil. Trump offered to help them and they chose not to, sad.
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