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America has a cultural problem, not a gun problem. :: 10/31/2015
On October 1, 2015, another shooting occurred, this time at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. The shooter allegedly targeted Christian students and staff, murdering them if they failed to deny Christ.
“Are you a Christian?” he asked them. “If you are a Christian then stand up.” The faithful students stood. “Because you are a Christian, you’re going to see God in about one second.” The gunman then shot and killed them, and their lifeless bodies fell to the floor. According to the Guardian, he continued going down the line, shooting person after person.
The shooter was armed with a handgun, and had enough time to reload. In reality, there is not any type of “gun-control” policy that could have prevented this incident from occurring; however, this did not stop President Obama from placing the blame on Republicans.
Immediately after the shooting, Obama held a press conference at the White House.
“The majority of Americans believe we should be changing these laws,” Obama stated. “There is a gun roughly for every man woman child in America. States with the strongest gun laws tend to have the least deaths.”
President Obama went on to state that the United States needed to become “more like our allies” Australia and Great Britain.
Both Britain and Australia have virtually banned all firearms.
In Great Britain, after an elementary school shooting in Dunblane, Scotland, Parliament passed The Firearm Act of 1997. This ended the private possession of all cartridge ammunition handguns, regardless of caliber.
In 2009, approximately twelve years after the passage of the Firearms Act of 1997, the Daily Mail Online reported that Britain was “the most violent country in Europe.” The study also found that “the UK [had] a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and South Africa.”
Australian gun-owners were forced to surrender 640,381 personal firearms, after the government issued a mandatory mass-gun confiscation, resulting from an April 28, 1996 attack, wherein a gunman opened fire on tourists in a seaside resort in Port Arthur, Tasmania. Immediately, the crime rate increased, and in 2001-2002, homicides increased another 20%.
If President Obama is suggesting that we should adopt the same laws that have been implemented in Australia and Great Britain, he is calling for the complete repeal of the Second Amendment.
Obama then admitted that his critics were right, stating that he believes it is appropriate to use gun tragedies to push his political agenda.
“Someone somewhere, will say ‘Obama politicized this issue.’ This is something we should politicize. This is a political choice that we make, to allow this to happen every few months in America.”
He then took a swipe at the NRA, asking American gun owners to abandon the organization that opposes gun control.
“I would particularly ask America’s gun owners, who are using those guns properly, safely, to hunt, for sport, for protecting their families, to think about whether your views are properly being represented by an organization that claims to speak for you.”
“We are going to have to change our laws, and this is something I cannot do myself.”
The fact of the matter is that America does not have a gun problem. We have a problem with our culture. Within the past five months, on two separate occasions, gunmen have targeted Christians.
The first incident was at a Christian church in Charleston, SC. Now, we have this tragic incident that occurred in Oregon. The problem with United States is that our culture is developing strong anti-Christian beliefs, to the extent where we are becoming an extremely hated people.
The media, along with our President, have declared an all-out war on the Body of Christ. They have branded us as being hateful, full of bigotry, homophobic, judgmental, etc… As a result, it has caused others to develop strong negative opinions regarding people of faith. Though Christianity is about love, salvation and forgiveness of sinful acts (through repentance), the spewing of falsehoods has caused some people to perceive us as holding such branded qualities.
Many followers of Christ are being murdered in the Middle East, and now in the United States for simply revealing that they are Christians.
Jesus said in Matthew 24:9,”Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.”
We must continue pray for our nation and serve as witnesses, until Christ’s Return.
Gun control will not fix this problem. The only way that these incidences will cease, is if we (as a nation), turn back to God.
http://cowgernation.com/2015/10/31/america-has-a-cultural-problem-not-a-gun-problem/
