Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Christ

Gun violence in the United States has created a gap between the men and women and children who live in this country. Time and again we are reminded that as a nation we are certainly not united. I believe there are five big reasons we are unable to affect any change, but we all can agree that the loss of life is never acceptable and something must be done. 1) There are legitimate fundamental differences in beliefs between both sides of the argument. There are many people who believe that gun ownership should be severely restricted and or outlawed. They argue that the evolution of firearms is not something the founding fathers intended to secure when drafting the bill of rights and that the dangers presented by certain types of firearms far outweigh any possible benefit and reason for ownership. There are a seemingly equal number of people who believe that the founding fathers fully intended for citizens to possess weaponry that rivaled that of a country's military in order ...

“for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.” It seems to be the prevailing thought that the study of history cannot possibly help to better society in the technologically advanced world in which we now live. It is easy to dismiss writings even from as few as 200 years ago when we can now receive up to the minute news on a device that we can wear on our wrist that tells us the precise time of any location on the planet, all while allowing us to communicate with anyone on the planet with just the touch of a few buttons. It's truly remarkable that it took thousands of years to go from papyrus to printed paper and in less than 100 years we have all but eliminated the need for paper due to the introduction of the computer. So why should we study history or care about what those in our past have to say about a...