What's Wrong With America? Sensationalising Mass Shootings & the Gun Control Debate - #PelloweTalk
Channel: Dave Pellowe
Date: 2017-10-04

Have you seen the latest news about the Las Vegas Shooting? Yet another mass shooting in this great nation, and to the last man the mainstream media are yet again looking for solutions in all the wrong places. Gun control is not the answer, because that horse has bolted. There are more than 300 million guns in America, and they are not going to give them up. Demanding gun control now, when what the left really mean is confiscation, is completely impractical and unworkable. It’s not a solution.

But it’s also not the problem. Killing four or more people without a cooling off period is not a high tech problem. We see many examples around the world where vehicles, knives and explosives are used easily when a politically motivated and/or mentally deranged person is determined to inflict maximum terror and carnage.

The heart of the matter, is the matter of the heart.

In response to the church mass shooting in Charleston in 2015, Dr Ben Carson observed that the young shooter didn’t wake up that day and suddenly turn into a maniac. He said there were clearly things in his background, in his upbringing that led to the mentality that would allow him to do something like that. He continued that one of the things that Americans really need to start concentrating on in that country is once again instilling the right kinds of values, particularly in their young people.

Once upon a time students were taught citizenship and responsibility, but now they’re taught that they’re all victims of something, the patriarchy, capitalism, colonisation, discrimination and that they have to fight for their rights. We’ve been taught that creating a better society is achieved by adversarial activism, instead of by becoming better people and improving ourselves. Whatever we believe and however we behave is an intrinsic part of our identity and mere disagreement has become personal violence, justifying violent responses. Free speech has become hate speech, and Truth has become a tool of the oppressor, instead of a mutual pursuit.

The message America bombards each person with is that God is optional, all laws are just simply because the majority said so, there is no accountability in this life or the next, there is no truth but your own, you have no public responsibility and every personal right you can imagine - except to disagree with someone’s personal truth. Human life is disposable property if you’re preborn, and worthless if you’re depressed, elderly, suffering or a “nazi” - which is anybody who has beliefs you find objectionable.

When Jimmy Kimmel insists that anybody who disagrees with him about the political solution to mass shootings is being bribed by the NRA and heartless puppets of the gun lobby, he is claiming a superior authority to define morality and sincerity. He is part of the mainstream media narrative that there is no moral compass besides the media: there is no absolute truth, and that God and the basic Christian value that all men are created equal under God has no place in American culture.

And that is the problem.

If only they’d live by it, America’s national motto is the solution. In God we trust. America does not have a gun problem. America has a culture problem.

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