In the wake of recent events I find myself asking, how did we get to this point? How did we get to the point to where we blame the parents not the alligator, the gun not the shooter? It seems so backwards. We are living in a country that when tragedy strikes and families are grieving we point fingers in the completely wrong direction.
A family recently lost their two-year old son. He was just two years old. He had a whole life of laughter and learning ahead of him. Instead there will be no tee-ball games or peewee football. No more Christmases or birthday parties. He will never get a 6th grade, high school, or college graduation. His family is left with only the memories, the pictures and the media saying that they weren’t good enough parents. Instead of sending love and encouragement and prayers, our country blames them. The media says that they should have been watching him better or done more. But if you asked his parents before the tragic accident what they would do if their child was in danger I promise they would say “anything”. And I think that they did the best they could, the only thing they could do against such a creator. But, bad things happen. And sometimes that’s the only explanation. Bad things have always happened. It doesn’t have to be someone’s fault, and sometimes I don’t think that there has to be a reason. But, I’ll be the first to admit it is easier when we have someone to blame, but sometimes we just don’t. So what good does it do to blame the grieving parents of a two-year old little boy?
Unfortunately that’s not all that our country has faced over the last few weeks. An Islamic Radical walked into a nightclub and took 49 lives. And who is our country blaming? The gun in his hand. The gun placed the sick and sadistic thoughts and ideologies in the terrorist’s mind. The gun provided the money and means of transportation to get to the point of the terrible action. And the gun pulled it’s own trigger to take the lives of 49 people. How backwards is that? If you take the act that this man did and break it down it almost comical to blame the gun. Take the gun away and he still would have found away to cause distress and harm to our loved ones. It wasn’t the gun it was the man. We live in a world where we find it easier and even necessary to blame the sin and not the sinner. So we find ourselves blaming the gun. It amazes me because that very same thing that our nation is blaming could have saved the lives of many in that club that night. I am by no means saying that I think it is ok for our country to make it easy for radicals to be handed guns and the sorts, but I also think that they would find another way. Guns shouldn’t have the focus of our President and officials. ISIS and the radicals that follow should. I think Greg Gutfeld said it best, “If your house is on fire you don’t remodel the kitchen”. It confuses me that our President who is protected at every moment of the day by armed Secret Service wants to essentially take that very right from the common man. I get some of the intentions that gun control supporters have. I don’t want things like the Orlando shooting and other attacks to happen either, but I firmly believe that with or without guns terrorist will find a way to cause mass destruction. So maybe, just maybe our lawmakers and officials will take a second and think about what this fight is really about while their armed security guards protect them from the outside world.
In the wake of recent events I find myself asking, will anything ever change? As the days and weeks have passed are we morning the loss of these lives, or are we still pointing our fingers. If we could challenge our country or even our world in one way to love people and own their actions, think of the changes we would see.
