I'm back! Today's events forced me back to my keyboard - and to my blog. I know, I know, no one reads these, but it helps me to keep from screaming into my pillow at night.
This really started back when a confused young man decided to shoot into a Catholic Church during mass - a mass at which children were the majority of the congregation. Right after the event, most (sane) people were asking for prayers for the victims' families - and for the shooter and his family. Almost immediately, a group of people began objecting to that - saying that 'obviously' prayers didn't help, since these children had been in church and praying when they were murdered.
Then, not very long after, a young Ukrainian female refugee was riding on public transit in Charlotte - and was stabbed to death by a man who had been arrested 14 previous times - and had spent time in jail. And while she was being stabbed and dying - none of the others on that train car moved to help her or attempted to subdue her killer. They just sat there, not looking, staring into their phones, until the train started coming into the next stop, when they went to the door where the killer wasn't. The killer was quickly caught, but I find it incredible that those people were so apathetic or possibly immune to seeing someone stabbed to death - or just plain scared to try to capture the man because maybe they might end up under arrest the way Daniel Penny had been arrested for trying to keep others safe.
Then there's today.
Christian American conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was shot and killed - murdered by person or persons unknown during an appearance on a college campus in Utah. Charlie was popular with young people, made them proud to be Americans, and brought many to Christ. Only 31, he left behind a wife and children. From what I've been seeing, the shooter was likely on a rooftop with a clear view of the stage (stop me if this sounds familiar). The shooter, as of the time of my writing this, is still on the loose.
Immediately, the liberal left began to blame Charlie's rhetoric as the reason for his demise.
Next, they'll blame it on the gun. Well, I've had a gun for most of my life, and it's never shot anyone. It takes a person's finger on the trigger to make that happen.
As we learned in Charlotte, a gun isn't always necessary to kill. Knives are a more personal way, you have to get closer than with a rifle, but both are deadly, and both need a human hand to do the work.
We must stop this insanity. Treat mental illness instead of celebrating it. Keep criminals locked up - and reform our justice system so that criminals are punished for their crimes. And do it quickly. People who speak to the press must stop suggesting that maybe things would be better if so and so weren't around to cause a problem, inciting violence against that person- and if that violence does happen, charge the person who instigated it.
I pray that God will raise up more young men who will pick up Charlie Kirk's Bible and continue what he began.
"if my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." ---2 Chronicles 7:14
Later. I need to go find a pillow...
