God and Guns

Common sense (noun): "sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or fact." The Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Simple, based on perception or fact, or so you may think. American's prove daily that common sense is not the norm anymore. 

My common sense problem with America (and Americans) for today is gun control. Yes, that is a term that will probably end up on the 2014 list of banned words and phrases. You know what, let's talk about it until it's drilled into everyone's head. 

1. More guns, not the answer. 
2. Prayer can't stop bullets.  

American has a gun culture, where too many people still believe they live in the Wild West and good guys wear white hats, bad guys wear black hats. 

Not true! The police do not know who is the good guy or bad guy, they just see a guy with a gun. In some countries, that alone will get you shot on site. No one is going to stop and ask what your intentions are with the gun, especially during a mass shooting. They are looking for the shooter or shooters and that is a person or people with a gun.

For the first week after the mass shooting of 20 innocent children, you couldn't look a social networking site or listen to at least one politician making a comment that if God was still in school, shootings wouldn't happen. This may be just as bad as "more guns."  

You can't pray away mentally ill people, you can't pray for hunger to end, you can't pray to stop anything. You can make sure mental health services are available to more people, rather then more guns. You can donate food, make healthy food affordable, offer free lunches to low income children at school. 

Actions, speak louder than words.