Now that our President has issued 23 different gun-control initiatives, I thought it was time to chime in. We can all agree that the Newtown, Conn. and the Aurora theater shootings and all the others are horrific events that we ought to put our minds together to prevent.
And that is what I am proposing in this post. No one segment of the issue is going to resolve the problem. If we believe, for example that gun control is the answer, then we are being hopelessly myopic. While gun control is an issue, it is not the central issue. It is peripheral as are violent entertainment, mental disorders, and poor parenting. I believe representatives of each need to come together to focus on the central issue. That issue is sin. As a Christian I believe if we focus on sin bearing in mind the salient concerns of each of the peripheral issues, we can come together to prevent tragedies like these in the future.
So here is my proposal. President Obama, Sen. Harry Reid, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi need to sit at the same table as Speaker John Boehner and other leaders from the Republican party. The NRA needs to be present as well as leaders from the entertainment industry. Also they need representatives from the mental health and medical professions and both conservative and liberal theologians from Christianity, Judaism and Islam to tackle the present darkness of evil that is plaguing our land. Only then will initiatives based on broad input from our society be effective in preventing future tragedies.
