Guns
There are conflicting points of view on the matter of gun control, on the matter of a U.S. citizen's Second Amendment right to bear arms. As can be seen by the quotes below, today's leadership is in conflict with the opinion of the founding fathers as expressed by our First President George Washington regarding the right to own guns.
How should we think and feel about gun ownership as citizens today? What position should we support? Should we ally ourselves with those who demand that guns be confiscated? Should we stand strong for Second Amendment rights?
There are conflicting points of view on the matter of gun control, on the matter of a U.S. citizen's Second Amendment right to bear arms. As can be seen by the quotes below, today's leadership is in conflict with the opinion of the founding fathers as expressed by our First President George Washington regarding the right to own guns.
How should we think and feel about gun ownership as citizens today? What position should we support? Should we ally ourselves with those who demand that guns be confiscated? Should we stand strong for Second Amendment rights?
Of course, our hearts are broken every time there is a mass shooting
and innocent victims are mowed down by someone with a gun. But our
hearts are also broken when someone wielding a knife attacks an innocent
bystander.
We are devastated when the operator of a motor vehicle uses said vehicle to strike down unsuspecting victims.
And, what about those who throw rocks to kill the object of their wrath?
Perhaps most heart-wrenching of all is the destruction of human life within the womb --by the scalpel of a skilled surgeon, a physician who was trained to heal, who has taken the Hippocratic Oath whereby he promised to save life, to do no harm, with an instrument that was designed to perform healing surgery, not murder.
Shall we ban all knives? Shall we cease to drive motorized vehicles? Shall we rid the world of rocks? Should we demand that surgeons forego the use of scalpels?
Or should we see that murder is a sin of the human heart? That the human heart is "wicked above all things"? (See Jeremiah 17:9) That until a man is washed clean of the sin within himself he will use anything at his disposal from guns to rocks to scalpels to do his wicked deed!
Should we see that murder, like all sin, must be under the blood of Jesus, and until it is, a man subjected to the one who "comes to steal, kill and destroy," John 10:10, will do just that--steal, kill, and destroy--with whatever means are at his disposal!
What should America do about her guns? Perhaps the same thing she should do about all the sin into which she's fallen.
Perhaps those among her citizenry who believe in Jesus should be upon their faces in prayer that the He will visit us again with another great revival--for a nation on her knees before God will not bow to the dictates of any man, nor will she bow before the enemy of the soul of man to do his evil bidding!
We are devastated when the operator of a motor vehicle uses said vehicle to strike down unsuspecting victims.
And, what about those who throw rocks to kill the object of their wrath?
Perhaps most heart-wrenching of all is the destruction of human life within the womb --by the scalpel of a skilled surgeon, a physician who was trained to heal, who has taken the Hippocratic Oath whereby he promised to save life, to do no harm, with an instrument that was designed to perform healing surgery, not murder.
Shall we ban all knives? Shall we cease to drive motorized vehicles? Shall we rid the world of rocks? Should we demand that surgeons forego the use of scalpels?
Or should we see that murder is a sin of the human heart? That the human heart is "wicked above all things"? (See Jeremiah 17:9) That until a man is washed clean of the sin within himself he will use anything at his disposal from guns to rocks to scalpels to do his wicked deed!
Should we see that murder, like all sin, must be under the blood of Jesus, and until it is, a man subjected to the one who "comes to steal, kill and destroy," John 10:10, will do just that--steal, kill, and destroy--with whatever means are at his disposal!
What should America do about her guns? Perhaps the same thing she should do about all the sin into which she's fallen.
Perhaps those among her citizenry who believe in Jesus should be upon their faces in prayer that the He will visit us again with another great revival--for a nation on her knees before God will not bow to the dictates of any man, nor will she bow before the enemy of the soul of man to do his evil bidding!
Did George Washington have something to say about the possibility of a Clinton Presidency?
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