Some days you wake up and ask, what the hell is going on?  These days are becoming more frequent.  Why would a person plant bombs at the finish line of a marathon race?  Why would anyone go to an elementary school and kill multiple persons?  If these acts were being perpetrated by someone from a foreign country that is in an ideological war with the USA, then you can maybe understand, but it usually turns out to be someone from within our community.  How did things get so skewed that the action they have taken seems to be the only action available to them?  I dont have an answer to that.

I am sitting here this morning, in my office, and watching the media pundits go on about gun control.  Most of those who are doing the talking are people who I doubt have ever been to a gun show.  Everyone I have ever been to requires background checks in order to purchase a gun. They say a gun can be purchased from an individual without such a check.  That is correct.  How is a gun control law going to prevent that.  If the bad guys want to buy a gun, then they can buy one from an individual who is not a licensed fire arm dealer and the government is none the wiser.  Passing a law will not change that.  I dont mind them checking me, as I have nothing to hide.  I want to buy a gun, I buy a gun.  Not to be used to kill my fellow man, mostly just to own.  It is more of an act of collecting than anything else.

The blast in Boston should show everyone that the problem is not guns.  The explosives showered the people on the street with nails, bb’s and ball bearings.  They appear to have been placed inside a $ 19.99 pressure cooker, which can be purchased at your local grocery store. How do we legislate against the use of such items, by our fellow man, as equipment of destruction.  We cant.

The problem is really a lot more basic than loose gun control.  We have gotten away from core values.  We have undermined the family in America.  These are not things that you and I dont already know.  I am not telling you something you dont know in your heart.  How do we recover what we once had?  I am not sure we can in the short term.  I think we have to try.  We have to look at ourselves and see what we can do to support the family unit.  We have to start being nice to each other.  We have to start treating all people in a manner that we would like to be treated.  Does that sound biblical?   It should.  That is another one of our problems.

I could go on.  I guess I am just sad about how things are going in our country.  I remember when I would not have thought about carrying a fiream in my auto.  I cant imagine not doing that now.  I dont plan on ever using it. but.

Gary