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Over the last few decades — and most notably — the last few years, a series of high-profile mass shootings in the U.S. has inflamed the controversial gun control debate. Each shooting elicits the same question: should we expect policymakers to make new legislation or do we keep the status-quo, allowing the strict interpretation of the Second Amendment to guide law? Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker argues the shootings are unrelated to current laws but rather it’s the rotting culture in America that serves as the root cause:
Gun control is not a new idea in America and has nothing to do with the shootings that we’re seeing. Gun control is a philosophy. And we saw that philosophy way back; we can recall Black Codes. We’re talking about a set of laws passed in the 19th century to restrict the freedoms of African Americans. In fact, a quote the Black Codes in Mississippi, one quote said, “no freemen negro or mulatto shall carry or keep firearms or ammunition.” You wonder why less than 16% of African Americans even take advantage of their Second Amendment rights today.
You fast forward 100 years from Jim Crow and from Black Codes. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, who led the civil rights movement to fix what was broken down in America regarding the ideals of freedom and dignity, was not able to get a gun.
Yeah, in a recent New York Times article, they argued that the modern quest for gun control was born in the shadow of the Civil Rights movement, that gun rights for Whites was a counterbalance to segregation.
Well, there are Democrats that are segregating and now pushing for gun control, background checks, and all these other measures to take away our Second Amendment rights.Today’s movement against the Second Amendment aims in the opposite direction of the Civil Rights movement. The gun control movement claims we have pain and suffering in our nation because we are too free.
Others are telling us that we can make a better nation by using the force of government to scale back on our freedoms.
If you look at look at even the Biden administration, they’re so confused. That to get people mixed up, that they continue to find parents speaking out at school board meetings as domestic terrorists. Well, they’re terrorists. That what do we call the people that are our perpetrators of death, the ones that were recently seen in Texas and Buffalo, New York? And then people want to scratch all over the place to find meaning behind it.
While our culture has totally collapsed. Family has collapsed. Faith has collapsed, community has collapsed. So if there’s anything we’re going to do together, we need to shine a light on the evil that we must all confront. Recognizing the collapse that’s happening in our country and through faith and freedom we can reach the truth that’s what’s needed to strengthen our nation and our communities.
