Unbelievable! So many unanswered questions!!! Once again we turn on our televisions and we hear of yet another mass shooting, and once again it is in a school, —- not just a school, but an elementary school for heaven’s sake. Another deranged person has taken a military style weapon, covered himself in body armor to go shoot and gun down a classroom of innocent fourth grade children and their teacher. And — before he goes on his murderous rampage — he guns down his own grandmother, Why??? Why any of this? Why is he or any civilian allowed to buy military style body armor? Why is any person allowed to purchase military style weapons?  I’m not against guns or owning guns. I believe in the rights of citizens to be able to defend themselves and their homes as guaranteed in the 2nd Amendment of our constitution. But how does that transition over to the right to freely walk around and just kill people? 

We have a generation of people that have no concept of the sanctity of life. Their training to independently  kill with impunity begins at an early age with video games that teach you that there is nothing to killing to pulling a trigger and killing and the more you kill the better. And if you get killed — reset the game and go again. No body teaches them that real life doesn’t reset. 

One unfortunate fact of this latest and of most of these shootings is that we never know the real “why” it happens because most of them take their own life. In this case the police killed him, but the result is the same, we will never know why. What made this young man so angry that he had to take his anger out on 18 ten year old children and their teacher?? Why do these perpetrators always pick on the innocent? Why? Why? Why???? So many questions. Did you know that there have already been 27 school shootings this years? Did you know that since 2009 this country has had 273 mass shooting events with 1526 people killed and another 980 wounded??? And do you fully realize that this will continue to happen as long as people let it become third page news? 

Today, parents will grieve and continue to grieve for the rest of their lives, never understanding how or why their child isn’t out playing with their friends instead of being buried. Today, politicians will wring their hands and profess anger and shock and continue to do nothing but argue and turn their attention to whatever lobbyist is giving them the most support and is going to get them re-elected. Today pastors and clergy all over the country will tell you to pray and start putting God back in the home and the school but have zero plan on how to make that happen. Today first responder will brace themselves for the worst and pray that they don’t have to respond to something like this ever in their career. 

My friends, I have no solutions to the crisis or multiple crisis this nation is going through. I can only pray. I pray for peace. I pray for peace within our homes and in our communities and within our nation. I pray that God will provide us a way to instill a renewed sense is civility within this nation and every nation. I pray that somehow God will erase hatred from our hearts and minds and give us a sense of the peace that Jesus has promised us. 

God bless you my friends. I wish you God’s peace.