NO KILLING GUNMAN GAVES A DAMN ABOUT THE LAW

Somehow, the country has come to believe that it is possible to write some law that will stop violent crime and, in particular, killing by guns, knives or bows and arrows.  Let's get one thing straight in our minds: once a criminal decides to commit a crime, he/she doesn't give a rat's fanny about what the law says.  Once they decide to go packing their weapons of destruction into a crowded movie theater or a school building, no law... no law... is going to stop them. 

It's been proven in country after country and jurisdiction after jurisdiction that oppressive gun laws, banning guns or even confiscation of guns does not stop gun crimes.  

The answer is that we have to remove the predilection or inclination for criminal activity, whether it be shoplifting or mass school shootings, or anywhere in between.      

I was brought up to believe that if you committed any crime, you were not only going to be punished, you were going to be ostracized or shunned by your friends and by society in general.  Even if you were rehabilitated, you would no longer be trusted.   What's worse, when you got to the cemetery you would have to face God's wrath.  

So, what has changed? 

We don't take our kids to church or have them read from the Bible anymore.  We don't sit at the dinner table and thank God for what we are about to eat anymore.   We have broken families, leaving the structure out of family units.  We don't demand that our children be the best that they can be at anything anymore; if they do less than they are capable of, we simply shrug our shoulders and flip the channel.  We tolerate the breakdown of society by glorifying drug abuse.  Hedonism has replaced God.  

We don't have a gun problem in this country.  We can't write enough laws to correct the real problems.  What we do have to accomplish is that we have to get back to the God-fearing days about every facet of our lives.  We have to insist on the straight and narrow and we have to seek out and repair the cracks in the foundations of our lives that allow evil to creep in. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.