Stop in for a cup of coffee

If no one had guns, they would do as in England, use knives, and if no one had knives, they would throw rocks. Just read the old testament from the bible and you'll see plenty of examples of throwing rocks, and it is still going on in some parts of the world.

When the golden rule about "be to others as you want them to be towards yourself" is thrown overboard, and the new rule is "I do as I please", this it what we get.

I can understand the democrats wanting to ban guns to people who had a mental issue, they suggested so many years ago. But I do also understand the republicans refusing to accept that. Now, if they could meet half way and say that some who are mentally unstable should not have guns. But, this register the democrats wanted to use, that would also include a young mother who has a depression after getting her first child for example, and ban her from having a gun for the rest of her life, and I want people to look me in the eye and say they have never struggled at some point in life. We can not ban all of them from having a gun. Then we have all those with anger issues, which is not considered being mentally unstable according to the law. What shall we do about them ? Shall we walk around in the neighborhood asking if they have heard anyone being out in the backyard yelling in anger, and then paint a red cross over the door to their home ?

All these things that causes some people to pick up a gun and shoot someone else, there is a reason for it. And these reasons I think comes from decisions made over the years that has made society colder and less loving. The US is not the only country where that is happening. And violence is raising in many parts of the world. Norway too.
But, it is much easier to blame the problem on the guns, the guns can not talk back or defend themselves. It is easier to go after the tool, than to address the causes to use the tool in the wrong way. Because then we might have to admit that one or more of the decisions that has been made over the years was wrong. Decisions that has made society to what it is now.

Just my thoughts. Maybe America need a hugging campaign, hug a neighbor. Democrats hugging their neighbor Republican, and Republicans hugging their neighbor Democrat. And for those who pray, don't pray for someone to get "what they deserve", revenge belongs to the Lord. Pray for getting along and bless your enemy. The Lord then has his ways of loosening up the tensions.


Bill