How to really stop mass shootings

 Another mass shooting, spaced closer together with previous ones.  Like many of you, I am sick and tired of innocent life being slaughtered.  Many believe the solution is gun control.  "Just make it harder for bad people to get guns," they say.  Will that really change anything? Or will it make the problem worse? Bad people can get guns any way they want. They can steal them, buy them through illegal black market sites, etc. Even if they had no access to guns, they could use vans, rocks, bombs or a host of other things they could turn into weapons to take innocent life. Evil doesn't have preferences to commit unspeakable acts. Evil is sin, it's in the human heart and we're all capable of it. (Romans 3:23)

  I find it ironic that many of the same people denouncing the loss of life in the elementary school shooting (as they should!) are perfectly fine with (and even violently campaign for) babies to be murdered in the womb and for children to be indoctrinated with sexual views that cause them to question and mutilate their own bodies. How can you claim their lives are valuable if they have no meaning in the womb?  Why is it immoral for a child to be shot in cold blood, but not to be brutally ripped apart in the womb? Or to be mutilated in order to follow rapidly-changing feelings? You can't say it's wrong, because you have no basis for saying so. 

"Thoughts and prayers do nothing," we're told, "It's time for policy and action." While I agree policies need to be enacted (to specifically improve security measures), if you discount prayer, it is because you have no understanding of God and of what prayer really is. What's the alternative? Prominent atheist Richard Dawkins states it bluntly: 

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.” 

(from his book River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life) 

There is no evil or justice in the atheistic worldview.  

"But why didn't God stop this?!" you shout.  Do you want him to stop abortions, or is it your "right"?

 It's the same thing. You cannot truly fight this evil unless you believe God and value human life from womb to tomb. 

One of the signs of God's wrath is His wrath of abandonment as described in Romans 1. He's giving us what we want.

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