You speak wisdom and truth.
Well all we have is a penny, we value it as a great fortune. If someone deprives us of our penny, we think we’ve lost EVERYTHING.
This *finite* life is but a penny when compared to the infinite wealth of joy in Heaven *eternal*.
Eternity is a special concept - it is infinite. God’s love knows no bounds. When people ask, “How can God let this happen,” remember where God lives - in the eternal. The finite suffering of this world pales to zero when we finally face the infinite joy in heaven.
While it may be hard to let go of the penny in hand, understanding what awaits the faithful is the truest comfort.
Agreed with the substance of your post.
Early reports (now inaccurate?) stated that the gunman used a .223 AR type gun. How would he get that into the school?
Second point, if they try to curtail or circument the 2nd amendment they are going to have a big fight on their hands and it won’t be discussion left up to the political cowards driven by the leftist, corrupt, lying MSM. We will be involved on a very real level.
I hate to say this but in my lifetime our country started it’s downhill slide when Madeline Murray was successful in removing God from our public schools.
My granddaughter was raped and murdered 18 years ago and I know about pain.
Spiritual War?
Yes, Correct.
And remember both the Colorado theatre shooter and this perp wore black clothing. (the Trademark of the Anarchist Black Block element of OWS) There were some who stated that the CO shooter was connected with OWS.
The eternal battle, Light vs Darkness, Truth vs Lies, Life vs Death.
It’s illegal to teach public school kids things like “Thou shalt not kill,” so what do you expect to happen?
First, there are already more than 20,000 gun control laws actively on the books today and none of them prevented this tragedy. Second, millions upon million of people in America own guns and 99.9999% of them have never and will never do anything like this.
So, let’s lose the hysteria and analyze the facts - a PERSON did this, NOT a hunk of steel. In Portland, a PERSON killed two people in the mall, NOT a hunk of steel! In Denver, a PERSON shot up the theater, NOT a hunk of steel!!
NONE of these facts will matter to the gun-grabbing nanny-staters, because they focus solely on the gun and nothing else. So, what happens if ALL guns are outlawed and forcibly collected by the feds? Someone bent on committing mass murder may turn to knives, hatchets, chainsaws or machetes. So, we outlaw those. The next person to commit a heinous crime may use a bat, poison, poison gas or a semi-tractor. And the one after that may use a car, a pen or pencil, a rock, his hands . . . . . . so when do we blame the PERSON and NOT the inanimate weapon!???
The fact remains that until the left understands that murdering humans by ANY means including their favorite method, abortion, human life will be valueless and more copycats will come out to exercise their demented mass murder of innocent people.
All of that said, it occurs to me that the gun-grabbers are from the leftist school of complete control. What that means is that if 1 person commits a gun crime then, under the leftist theory of the “collective” and “groupthink”, they believe that ALL gun owners will commit mass murder unless they eliminate guns (good luck with that!). So, the calls for more gun control by the left after these incidents is twofold - eliminate the “balance of power” the Founding Fathers so carefully wove into the Constitution and gain total control over the people.
Another part that affects all of this is the fact that laws, whether gun laws, robbery laws, or whatever, are written solely to affect law-abiding citizens. People who commit crimes are called “outlaws” and criminals because they DON’T adhere to the laws created to control or stop their illegal activities.
So, should the left create additional gun control laws, will it prevent the next gun-related crime? Of course not. Laws only affect those of us who obey them. Those who disregard the law won’t be stopped from committing whatever crime they want to commit.
As a final note, Adam Lanza did not own the guns he used to murder all of the people at Sandy Hook Elementary. They were his mother’s guns and they were all legally purchased and registered. Which begs the question, what will any NEW gun control laws accomplish?
We really need to pray for everyone involed. Asking why doesn't give us answers, but asking God what we can do next will provide answers.