The Second Amendment is not a law that was passed by
Republicans a few years ago, and now we are finding that it is unrealistic and that
guns need to be highly restricted and regulated.
It was not a part of the body of the Constitution, because a
lot of the Founders didn’t see the need for it.
They figured that if the Constitution didn’t give the government the
right to restrict guns, we don’t need to specifically say that we have a right
to have them.
The point is that the right to keep and bear arms has always
been there, 242 years as a nation and long before that when we weren't), and it is only now that we are having a
problem with them. The Founders called
us an “armed” people and thought that was a good thing, necessary to preserve
our freedoms.
So, if we are now having a problem with guns, something
changed in our society that is making more people prone to use them for evil
purposes.
The problem is that nobody is asking that question, and
everybody is just accepting the need to hire thousands more law enforcement officers,
pass a lot of new laws, and spend millions of dollars that they can’t really
afford.
The answers proposed by Democrats always involve spending
more money on law enforcement, flooding the streets with more policemen. Every problem with them requires government
rules, laws, programs and money. And
lots of them. And this requires constant
pressure on the government to try to get more and more money from the people to
pay for all these things.
We have lost our moral compass as a nation, and nobody wants
to talk about it. We have replaced
religious values with secular ones, and nobody wants to admit that they are not
working. The highest moral value that we
now place on people is tolerance: tolerate your neighbors, put up with them or
simply ignore them,
We have removed God from public life, and faith in God has
always been the highest motive for restraining evil actions in people. It is God who holds people accountable for
their actions, and it is God who knows what goes on in our hearts and when no
one else is looking. Not everybody who
hates other people acts out that hatred, but God sees it and takes that into
account.
Our country was founded on a belief in God, not God in some
generic sense or some god found in all religions, but it was God as taught in
the Bible. This God gave us unalienable
rights, and no other nation or religion has this or believed in this.
It is the Bible that gives us reasons to value other
people. They are created in the image of
God just like we are. It teaches us to
love our neighbors, to care for them, help them, respect them. Our moral code used to be the Ten
Commandments plus one: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Now we teach our children that people are just animals that
can talk, created over millions of years by random chemical processes with no purpose
or reason for being. There are no rules
but what we make, and the best secularism can do is to tell us to put up with each
other.
When we can abort a million babies a year as a human right,
it is but a symptom and sign that we no longer value human life. Oh, the ones who lose loved ones know that
isn’t true on a personal level, but in the abstract, the government cannot make
people care for other people. Caring for
other people is a religious concept, and it was Christianity that made loving
your neighbor as yourself a large part of our nation’s moral framework for most
of its history.
If we don’t return to our roots, our nation will continue
its slide to division, chaos, and lawlessness.
