It's Always the Same Narrative
Just today, tragically, a 28 year-old woman entered a private Christian school in Nashville TN and ended the lives of 3 children and 3 adults. Police said the shootings began at 10:13am and at 10:27 am, the shooter had been killed by police officers.
At this point, no one knows the woman’s motive and we may never know. Some outlets are reporting that the woman had previously attended the Pre-K through 6th grade private school, but that would have been years ago, so who knows. I’m sure more information will come out as the days pass.
Every time something like this happens, our hearts go out to the victims and their families and without batting an eye, Leftists rise to the occasion to demand more gun control.
The issue is of course, divisive. No one wants to see anyone killed by a gun, unless the person being shot is an armed criminal in the process of a crime like the woman who committed these murders. However, to continue to suggest or even state that one group of people is to blame because if only somehow the “loopholes” connected to background checks were shored up, then this type of crime would magically disappear. This entire line of reasoning is completely disingenuous because it’s a lie.
First, there is no background check loophole that I’m aware of. Others have weighed in on this and arrived to the same conclusion. The only “loophole” that actually exists is when someone completely circumvents the entire legal process and gains access to a gun either through theft or by illegal purchase on the mean streets of just about any mid-to-large sized city. Guns can easily be had. In fact, the black market has been and remains alive and well.
In fact, there is NO law that would keep guns out of reach of criminals or the criminally insane. It is simply not possible, but the Left continues to push the false notion that “guns kill people” and “loopholes in gun laws” make it possible for insane people and/or criminals to get guns.
As I was perusing articles highlighting the unfortunate and very tragic situation in Nashville, people continue making the same tired, worn out comments. One that I read often is: “Guns kill people,” which is also not true. Guns don’t kill anyone anymore than a car kills someone in an accident or when someone gets behind the wheel and deliberately runs people down. The gun was USED to commit a murder just as the car was USED to commit murder or mayhem in the case of someone deliberately intending to run someone down.
Have we so quickly forgotten the number of times in the past several years when someone got behind the wheel of a car and deliberately ran people down? The SUV driven by Darrell Brooks Jr - was it an accident or intentional murder? [1] Had the suspect been white and the victims black, I don’t believe mainstream media would have dropped the situation as quickly as they did. But with Brooks, we were supposed to not jump to conclusions, yet this is what the mainstream media does every time there is a shooting and it’s almost as though they’ve got their fingers crossed in hopes that the shooter will turn out to be a white male “Trump supporter” or at least a white male supremacist so they can run with it. When that doesn’t happen, it’s quickly deep sixed as they quickly move onto something else more “newsworthy.”
We live in a day and age where insanity exists in society. We have a growing portion of society that believes a person can be born male by really be female and visa versa. We have what is being called “gender fluid” people who can go back and forth. We have long been told that babies are not human until they are born. Prior to that they are merely clumps of fetal cells. In fact, there is a push to pass laws that say if a mother does not want the baby after it is born it can be killed (or left to die), and neither the mom nor the doctors would face criminal arrest since it would not be considered murder.
We have growing instances of pornography in public schools targeting children in the primary grades and when parents object they are threatened by the DOJ as being “domestic terrorists” for daring to be upset or argumentative at school board meetings.
We have men who outwardly appear as women participating in women’s sports and the women are told not to complain as they watch all their years of hard work and preparation go down the drain as victory is granted to an essential male.
We have the newest addition to the Supreme Court of the United States of America who, under oath, could not define “woman” and felt it was best left up to others to do that. I’m not sure how she would refer to herself then if she does not know what a woman actually is.
In other words, the world is increasingly exibiting all forms of insanity and just as Paul the apostle explains for us in Romans 1, the downward spiral is clearly seen in how society’s continued rejection of God plays out.
What the Left clearly wants to do is outlaw all guns in the USA. The problem with that is that even IF all law-abiding citizens went along with that and dutifully turned in all their weapons, it would be a field day for criminals and the criminally insane.
Since when do people with criminal intent obey the laws? Since when is that part of their lives? Every week I read about the “arrest reports” in our local paper. People who don’t have licenses and/or registrations for their vehicles routinely get pulled over and arrested. Often, it is due to the fact that they broke another law - driving while under the influence of drinking or drugs. These people do not care about the laws at all. Laws are not a hindrance to them. They live the way they want to live and do what they want to do.
I always find it fascinating that, over the years, there have been mass shooter “events” and the mainstream media is very quick to assume that the shooter is a male white supremacist. Often though we eventually learn that while many of these shooters are indeed white, they are often far Left in ideology and political persuasion. Once this is learned, the same mainstream media never talks about them again. Such was the case with the “Bernie” shooter who shot and tried to kill Steve Scalise and others.
The entire situation is simply absurd. Someone who wants to kill someone will find a way to do it. In the past, we’ve had people that plant explosive devices. Others use baseball bats. Some use vehicles, while others will use knives.
When do we outlaw bombs, baseball bats, vehicles or knives? The explosive device is easy to outlaw because in most cases it already is yet that doesn’t stop people from using them.
Guns - believe it or not - can and have been used for good. You’re rarely if ever hear the mainstream media highlighting a situation in which a good guy with a gun took out a bad guy with a gun. Outlaw guns and all you’ll have are bad guys with guns.
The entire situation is really a crock, politically motivated because “they” know that the removal of guns from American society is absolutely needed in order to leave us without a sufficient and lethal means of self-defense. The same people who are so “concerned” about all the gun violence seem not to care about all the other violence that exists in just the USA and makes the shootings seem to pale in significance.
I’m NOT saying that victims of shootings are less important. I’m simply saying that all murders of any type are extremely important to understand and try to do something about. Eliminating guns is simply not going to do anything.
The Left has a one track mind and they enjoy repeating themselves. However, they have no real data to back up their claims (that there are “loopholes” in background checks).
I recall a few years ago, this same Left kept stating that these large gatherings of gun enthusiasts where guns and ammo were sold takes advantage of the same “loopholes.” This 100% garbage. If a person goes to a gathering where gun dealers sell things, they can only sell AFTER doing a background check on the spot and all requirements must be met.
Dealers at those events CAN buy guns from people who bring them as well, but if the dealer does something wrong, they will lose their firearms license that allows them to sell. What dealer worth his/her salt would take that chance?
By the same token, the reasoning goes that if I buy something ONLINE, the chances greatly increase that I can get away with buying it without a background check. This is absolutely UNTRUE.
If I buy a gun online, the gun is NEVER sent directly to me. Never. It is ALWAYS sent to a local FFL dealer and it then becomes that dealer’s responsibility to ensure that my background is checked before they allow me to leave with that gun in my hand. I may have paid for that gun TO the online store or auction house where it was sold through, but I will also pay what is called a transfer fee at my local licensed gun dealer store AFTER they’ve done the requisite background check.
There are NO “loopholes” Ms. Press Secretary. None. They don’t exist. It is a created lie by the Left in an attempt to make the public think that Republicans aren’t doing enough and are in actuality, protecting criminals. Even Donald J. Trump got that wrong when he accused Republicans of being afraid of the NRA.
The NRA protects the 2nd Amendment. That’s why they were created and it’s their one main job. The idea that the NRA incidentally protects criminals is patently absurd.
Again, criminals don’t worry about a background check. They don’t worry about shopping legally in a gun store. They get their guns on the streets. Those guns have either been stolen from law-abding gun owners, or in most cases, those guns have been walked right into America through our completely open southern border. The same border that Mayorkas swears is completely “secure.” If he means it is securely in the hands of the drug cartels, he is 100% correct.
Any mass shooting is horrific, especially when it involves very young children. I wonder how many children will never want to go back to that school again after experiencing the tremendous fear from the gun shots with all the screams? Those who survived have lost friends and teachers. Families have been severely shaken causing grief that will be difficult to get over.
But it’s not the gun’s fault. It is the criminal’s fault and as current society continues to sink into the abyss of insanity, we can be assured this will happen more often. A hardened criminal mindset, to insanity to demonic possession - these are the things that cause people to want to harm others and they will do so any way they can. If they can’t get a gun, they’ll use a SUV. If they can’t get that, they’ll use a bomb or they might grab a Bowie knife, machete or ax…or hammer…or golf club…or (fill in the blank).
People are not naturally good believe it or not. We are born sinners and remain that until and/or unless we receive salvation from the only One who grants it - Jesus. Even then, becoming a believer does not mean instant perfection. People are still capable of making horrible decisions and the Bible is filled with examples of them.
I’m really tired of the political rhetoric around guns. It’s disingenuous and to me, it’s almost as though the Hegelian Dialectic is being used. Create the problem, cause an uproar from people demanding a solution, then offer the preconceived solution. It’s what they do and the fact that they couldn’t seem to care less about all OTHER murders that occur, but only focus on guns when in point of fact, there are far LESS gun murders each year than many other forms of murder, proves to me their ingenuous nature.
They’re hoping people will give into the fear and increasingly demand that background checks be improved, then gun purchases limited, then eliminated. If that happens, guns will STILL exist in society except the ONLY people who will have them are the criminals.
That does not bother the elite one bit.
[1] https://theconversation.com/suv-tragedy-in-wisconsin-shows-how-vehicles-can-be-used-as-a-weapon-of-mass-killing-intentionally-or-not-172359