The Common Sense Solution to America’s Gun Problems

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God’s Solution

Americans are killing Americans because more and more Americans are becoming bad people.

French political thinker and historian Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

The federal government can restrict gun ownership, but it cannot cure the sickness that motivates people to murder. Until that is stopped, whatever the cause—radical Islam, violent video games, mental illness, broken homes, etc.—America will not see an end to the violence.

When the ancient nation of Israel was rebelling against God, like America is today, the Prophet Isaiah wrote that “the whole head is sick” (Isaiah 1:5). One result of this sickness, as the Prophet Ezekiel later wrote, is that our cities will be filled with “violence” (Ezekiel 7:23).

But God does not send this warning without a solution! Bible prophecy says that soon we will live in a world that is totally gun free! However, this won’t come until Jesus Christ intervenes to abolish man’s system of laws and establish God’s law throughout the entire world.

The solution to gun violence on the domestic front is the same as the solution to war in foreign theaters.

“The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature and all the material and cultural developments of the past 2,000 years,” Gen. Douglas MacArthur said. “It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.”

The Prophet Micah illustrates this wonderful world under God’s rule in the fourth chapter of his biblical book: “And many nations shall come, and say, Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke nations afar off: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against a nation, neither shall they learn war any more” (verses 2-3).