We're Asking All the Wrong Questions

Recently, there was a student at Texas Tech who shot an officer in the face. And only a few days before that was the sniper in Las Vegas who killed 59.

The media always comes back to the guns. "It's a gun control problem."

Reporters ask questions almost as though it was part of a trouble-shooting flow chart.

"What is a student doing with a gun on campus?"

"How did he manage to smuggle so many firearms into a hotel room without being noticed?"

And other such bull crap. Those simply are not the right questions at all.

But here's some interesting questions:

Why was a convicted drug seller still a student at Texas Tech?

Why was he still living in the dorms among impressionable young people?

Or better still, "What causes someone to take the life of another human being?"

That's a hard one to figure out, and so the media won't try to get to that one.

But what bothers me worse is that a large percentage of people think the answer to both those situation is "We need stricter gun laws". And this diamond appears as one of the very first decision markers in the media's reporting diagram. "Was a gun involved? Talk about gun control."

The delusion is that somehow if we enact more control, we can stop people from doing things that are bad. Every time there is a school or public place shooting, the media and representatives of the liberal side of thought grab for this as though it were the only thought they can generate: We've got to take away everyone's guns.

Let's take a stroll over to Oklahoma City, shall we? We walk through the museum there and see the axle from the truck Timothy McVeigh used to bring a fertilizer bomb into town. We see the shoes of small children who were in the Murrah Building daycare facility. It was horrible. Being in that museum, or walking in front of the brass colored chairs makes you want to be sick to your stomach. But...There was no gun at all.

Because the problem wasn't some gun.

The problem was with the heart of Timothy McVeigh. 

He had no inhibitions or self-restraints about acting on the thoughts he had churned around in his mind. 

If you said "His thinking was purely evil", no one could contradict that.

He could have easily stormed the building with guns. He might have accomplished far less before he was killed. Instead, he created a larger weapon, and killed even more people. When a person desires to kill, it is a problem in the heart of the individual, not a problem with the weapon. Even Cain picked up a rock to kill Abel. There was not a gun problem, and no one cried out to ban rocks.

The problem is, evil exists in the world. It will always be here, and it will always seek opportunity to harm and damage to unsuspecting people. I equate evil with its source which I believe to be the devil. His mission, according to scriptures, is to kill, to steal, and to destroy.

That, my dear reader, is what evil is about.

Conclusion: 

It is naive to think evil can somehow be regulated out of existence. 

If it could, it wouldn't be evil.