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| Here my brother and sister are enjoying some shooting practice |
Gun control is another issue that is a heart issue. Using government coercion is the wrong route for "gun control." I believe this is reflected in the Scripture that says, (For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." People will control their guns properly and shoot the right things when their hearts are right. There is an old Latin saying that goes: Minatur innocentibus qui parcit nocentibus.
It means: "He threatens the innocent who spares the guilty." Many leaders are now threatening the innocent by not allowing the innocent to protect themselves from the guilty.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
-The Second Amendment of the Constitution
Our founders saw the right to keep firearms a very important right to make it number two of the Amendments to the Constitution. Those that don't like this amendment have taken several different angles to get around it. These maneuvers are not unique to the gun-control lobbyist.
1.Twist the meaning of the authority.
2. Make the authority to appear outdated.
3. Ignore the authority.
One way the original meaning is twisted is to say that it was talking about making sure the military is properly armed. Anyone who knows history knows that this is not what the founders meant as the amendment was a safeguard to make sure the government remained a servant, and not a tyrannical force. Then there is the idea that the Constitution is outdated. They believe that because we have police forces and freedom that we don't need to be ready to protect ourselves. They don't recognize how swiftly things can change, and that to keep freedom we must have the means to protect it and eternal vigilance. I think of the words of the prophet when he said people were saying, "Peace, peace; when there is no peace." Because the Constitution has been twisted and made to appear irrelevant it also has been ignored. Today we see a number of unlawful laws being made that ignore the authority of the Constitution.
I can't help but think about how people treat the Constitution in a similar way to how the Bible is treated. I believe the Bible gives us the means to live in the soundest freedom available to man. It's meanings are twisted by those that don't want to know its true meaning. Those that love freedom must be able to know what words mean and use the true meaning of words when they use them. One advantage to using a KJV Bible is that it was published when the English language was at its zenith and it has been acknowledged that it has had an influence on our language ever since it was published (just take a look at some of Webster's old dictionaries). John Milton said, "When the language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their degradation. For what do terms used without skill and meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude." It seems that those that change the meanings of these documents think that everything is evolving and a higher race of people will bring in a better day. They can't see that by twisting meanings they bring bondage on themselves and their posterity. There will be a better day when the guns and swords will be made into garden implements, but not till Christ is known as the true authority. In the meantime, man has an evil nature that requires us to take the necessary means to protect the innocent. We also know that when the command to not steal was given in the Bible it ordained private property and with it the means of keeping it. Jesus said, "But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the
thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house
to be broken up" (Matthew 24:43).
Ancient Israel went through a tragic day from sword-control. The purpose of the sword-control was people control. The Israelites were made captive by the Philistines. If they had swords it would have given them the means to go free and there would be no more free lunch for the Philistines. The people were being used. They were not even allowed to sharpen there own garden tools. They went to the Philistines to have their tools sharpened. Among the Israelites there were only two men that had swords, Saul, the king, and his son Jonathon. It makes me think of Stalin and how he took guns away the farmers in Ukraine. When he took the farms from the farmers to make collectivist farms the farmers caused uprisings, but not successfully as they only had farm tools to defend themselves. A similar story is of the government of Turkey and how they confiscated guns from the Armenians before killing many of them through forced labor, starvation and execution until three quarters of the Armenians in Turkey where dead. The stage was set to take away their ability to protect themselves from a government that sought to destroy them.
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This is an interesting take on the issue of gun control. The author believes our national inheritance and rich history in freedom are strong safeguards against gun confiscation. He comes at this issue from a different angle from I have. If you have insights on this issue that might be good to cover further, please let me know.
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