At any given time across the United States there are at least 100,000 state, county and city law enforcement officers on duty.

These men and women put their lives on the line every day, they willing accept the fact they may be seriously injured or killed, yet they are there, ready to give their life that others will be safe.

This past week there were two incidents of officers using deadly force and PART of the use was videoed.  Until ALL the facts are in we really don’t know what happened, if they were wrong they will face the consequences.

Ferguson should have taught the cop-haters that things are not always as they ‘originally’ seem, witnesses lied and deliberately pointed fingers at an officer - the result was the causing of millions of dollars in damages and stealing from merchants in their neighborhoods threatening the lives of officers AND the citizens of the city.

Not to mention crucifying, from what all evidence I am aware of, a good officer.  He made a couple of mistakes, one of the FIRST things you are taught is do not confront someone that is breaking the law, no matter how minor, while seated in your car, always get out.  Most officers, have made that same mistake at one time or another, it is an innocuous situation so we let our guard down, and rarely does anything come from it.  However, this officer paid a horrible price by not using proper safety precautions and had to use deadly force to protect himself – doesn’t give anyone the right to attack him, but he might not have had the problem had he been standing outside of the car.

Yesterday, at least two men chose to take revenge on officers in a different part of the country and fired upon them, killing several and injuring others.

From the videos I have seen, while the crowd fled in fear (rightly so,) the officers at the scene stood fast, protecting as best they could the citizens, covering them with their own bodies, while searching for the shooters.  Even though it was clear the killers were killing police, the police still stayed, making sure the citizens were as safe as possible, while hunting down the killers.

Immediately the gun control crowds leap up and say guns are the problems, take guns away from law abiding citizens so only those sanctioned by the government can have firearms.

The irony of these particular calls for action is that it starts with two officers in different parts of the country, on two different days, using deadly force killing two black people.  The claim is the officers were using unnecessary deadly force to subdue their suspects; two incidents, on two separate days while over 100,000 of their brothers and sisters in arms – each day - took no such actions.

The cry is we can’t trust the millions of citizens who legally own firearms and have never misused them.  But we can trust the government to always have the right mind set and will protect us.  Yet, the most recent incidents stemmed from perceived misuse of firearms by a government official.

Once guns are removed from the citizens only government officials will be allowed to carry guns; government operatives, who many claim are one of the reasons for banning guns because they are using excessive force.

Many would propose that the government should make the rules on who can possess weapons and what kind, and best to outlaw any guns at all. 

It isn’t a stretch to see that before long, because most claims of excessive use of force comes against those state, county and city law enforcement officers, that the federal bureaucracy will decide that only federal employees should have guns and take the guns away from any enforcement agency that isn’t federally ran.

Mistakes by federal law enforcement officers not withstanding.

If we think that can never happen, we need to take another look at how federal government has taken more and more control away from state and local governments – not to mention private citizens - and are now telling them what they can do and not do on almost every level.

If the state and local governments balk, their funding, money that is sent by those entities’ citizens to the federal government is threatened.

It is also ironic that the cities with the strongest gun control laws have the highest crime rate where crimes are committed with a gun are found.  Honest citizens cannot defend themselves from the hoodlums that don’t care about the law in the first place.

And the majority of those crimes, in those cities, are perpetrated by black criminals against unarmed black citizens.

The heart of the problem in America is not the guns.  It is the destruction of moral values.  It is the unwillingness of people to confront the real problem, a lack of respect for others, having a ‘me first’ attitude. 

An attitude of entitlement that says I deserve because I am, not because I worked hard or help others – let the suckers earn a living and make them give money to me so I can play, create havoc, or whatever – anything but be held responsible for my actions when I choose to not work or support my family, or teach my kids that EVERYONE is important and due respect until they prove otherwise.

And lastly, of course, is the denial of anything related to the Lord our God, demanding He be shut out of any decision; demanding that people not follow the Bible and if they do they are threatened with financial ruin and destruction; persecution, condemnation and incarceration; even reaching into the pulpit and telling ministers what they can say.

AW Tozier reminds us “that while it may look like things are out of control, behind the scenes is a God who hasn’t surrendered His authority.”

Psalm 47:7-9 For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.

⁸ God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.

⁹ The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.

Whatever comes, God is still in control; my concern is that He may just give us the government we seem to collectively deserve to bring America to our knees to acknowledge His rightful place.

I just hope we wake up in time, not so much for my generation, but for our children’s and grandchildren’s sake!

Later, Art :-)