‘Second’ Thoughts
Another mass shooting, another round of politicians on both sides accusing the other of making it a ‘political’ issue. Of course this is political issue. Our citizens keeping getting slaughtered, communities traumatized and yet we do nothing to change the situation, to fix the myriad problems that combine to create mass-murder scenarios in America. But damn, we can all talk a good game about the ‘rights’ of gun owners and mentally ill people, paying little attention to the rights of victims and other innocents. But the most galling thing to me as a Christian is, when people want to tie up all their rhetoric about gun rights, gun laws and freedom with G-d, at least implying some sort of godly, moral imperative to having weapons floating around just because…why? If we truly are a nation of Judeo-Christian values (as most of the Pharisees running for president and other elective offices, top-to-bottom keep trying to remind us) than I would think we would, as a culture and a people, spend a lot less time preaching the second amendment, and far more time heeding the second commandment: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me"
