Defend Yourselves!

I apologize in advance to anyone I offend, though it probably can’t be considered valid since I mean what I say, at least for today.
Violence is our schools, in our churches, work places, shopping malls, movie theaters and our homes. We have enemies all over the world and active wars but we continue to to be forced to engage in violence in our own country killing far more people than in the current wars.
Some say pray, and I say absolutely pray. Some say ban guns and I would have to say that we have a far deeper problem than guns.
I don’t want our country to be like this! Who does? I am beginning to relate to how the Israelis must feel. They are surrounded by enemies with not much hope for change.
They have survived by being armed. Business men carry brief cases in one hand and an M16 in the other every day just to go to work. Armed military guard every airport.
Some will say; so what! They haven’t stopped the violence! I have to think, maybe they haven’t stopped the violence, but they didn’t succumb to it yet either.
I read in history about the old west and the violence of many carrying weapons. This is not the old west! I believe it is far more dangerous! Not because there are more guns either. There definitely is a lack of decency, morals, and respect among way too many people in this country. Obviously there is much mental illness, ignorance, and we very much don’t have an effective system to deal with it. I can say be nice and mean it. I can say educate people and mean it. I can say punish people more harshly and mean it. I can say pray and mean it. I can say provide a nurturing environment in the home and mean it. There are many long term possibilities! I wish I could honestly say if we banned every gun and loved every child it would solve all of our problems. I don’t want to wait that long and this is why I apologized in advance.
We need action now! We need the average honest citizen to be armed. We need more police. We need our military patrolling our schools, churches, malls, transportation systems, our borders. I don’t think I’m over reacting! I think most of us are numb to the violence and under reacting. I even turn away from it.
It seems that an armed society would be the wrong direction and that good clean living would be the answer.
Somebody show me where good clean living is spreading like wildfire in this country and I might change my mind.
The wildfire that IS spreading is the wildfire of violence, not only in the world, but right here at home in the former good old USA.
It is time to take decisive military action in our own country now!
I’ll bet we wont though. I don’t want to give up on peace. Even in war I will not give up on peace. When cornered, most people will defend themselves or demand more protection from their government. I just don’t think enough people yet realize that we are cornered.
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country! The sooner we guard our homes and public places, the sooner the violence will be reduced and meanwhile we can reflect on what has worked and what doesn’t work. If you are able and willing to protect, and the law allows it please carry a gun. If faced with an armed criminal, even if I felt sorry for them, and would regret killing them forever, I  think I would have to believe that if I kill them first they will not be able to kill again Amen.