It's Not a Gun Thing

It’s not a gun problem, it’s a matter of humanity. God said that we commit murder in our hearts long before the trigger is pulled: “Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him,” (1 John 3:15). Christ said that one of the most important commandments was to love one another:

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments,” (Matt 22:36-40.)

So what’s wrong with people now days that they resort to guns to resolve problems in their lives? They’ve stopped loving one another. God said there would be tribulation in the end days and there is:

"When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be frightened; those things must take place; but that is not yet the end. "For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will also be famines. These things are merely the beginning of birth pangs,” (Mark 13:7-8).

But more significantly, brother has turned against brother completely disregarding life: "Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death,” (Matt 10:21).

Guns carry a political burden, but love for humanity does not. Do not kill seems plain and simple to me.

“Christ died out of love for us, while we were still "enemies." The Lord asks us to love as he does, even our enemies, to make ourselves the neighbor of those farthest away, and to love children and the poor as Christ himself.

The Apostle Paul has given an incomparable depiction of charity: "charity is patient and kind, charity is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Charity does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Charity bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things,’” (CCC 1825).

Maybe if we shared Christ more often there would be less hate and more love. It’s not my intent to convert others to my faith, but it is my goal to interact with others in love the way that my God has instructed me to.