If guns don’t kill people – people kill people – then …

Guns don't kill people. People kill people. I'm sick of hearing guns don't kill people, people kill people. The logic behind that is so flawed. And the results of people who say it and/or believe it are more and more people dying. People die because people use guns to kill people!

Take a look at the adjacent picture. It's soldier with an assault weapon. Guess what? He has that weapon for one reason only. Because it kills people. Furthermore, it kills people with a much lower likelihood that the soldier will be injured or killed compared to if he only had a single-shot rifle. Or a handgun with six bullets. Or a knife, with no bullets.

So don't even go there that guns don't kill people. These guns were made to kill people. Period.

And people kill lots of people. Especially here in America. Thanks to the gun culture in America, where we have an alleged constitutional right to have guns made for war, Americans can kill lots of Americans with assault weapons in a very short time. Here in America. Supposedly the greatest country in the world.

But what are we really great at? Being the number one country in the world for having more Americans killed by other Americans than any other country's citizens kill their own citizens? Is that what "American exceptionalism" is about?

Guns don't kill people. People kill people. That's a lie!

As I said, I'm sick of the guns don't kill people - people kill people thing. Guns do kill people, because people use guns to kill people.

But for today, I want to look at the word hanging out there at the end of the title.

"That's a lie".

What does this kind of thinking say about us Americans? We are the only country in the world that believes this ridiculous statement! I know we call ourselves "civilized". But are we? Even those countries we consider "uncivilized" don't have the mass murders with assault weapons that we do. So, just how "civilized" are we?

Or, have we reached a point where we no longer value life? The point where a life means so little, that we have half our leaders saying, Guns don't kill people, people kill people. And even more sadly, half the population in this country even believes that lie.

A beginning algebra student can make the connection. People use guns to kill people, therefore, guns do kill. When's the last time you read about anyone killing someone by throwing a feather at them? Feathers don't kill. But guns. Guns kill. Guns kill exceptionally well. That's why people use guns to kill other people, rather than trying to kill them with feathers.

But back to that's a lie.

If we believe this lie that guns don't kill people, what the heck is wrong with us? Why are we the only country in the world that believes this? How can our sense of right and wrong go so wrong?

Therefore, do we value money more than human life?

The list below came from msn news. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence in 2019 compiled a list of Republican senators who have accepted the most cash from the NRA. Here's the list.

1. Mitt Romney (Utah) $13,647,676
2. Richard Burr (North Carolina) $6,987,380
3. Roy Blunt (Missouri) $4,555,722
4. Thom Tillis (North Carolina) $4,421,333
5. Marco Rubio (Florida) $3,303,355
6. Joni Ernst (Iowa) $3,124,773
7. Rob Portman (Ohio) $3,063,327
8. Todd C. Young (Indiana) $2,897,582
9. Bill Cassidy (Louisiana) $2,867,074
10. Tom Cotton (Arkansas) $1,968,714
11. Pat Toomey (Pennsylvania) $1,475,448
12. Josh Hawley (Missouri) $1,391,548
13. Marsha Blackburn (Tennessee) $1,306,130
14. Ron Johnson (Wisconsin) $1,269,486
15. Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) $1,267,139
16. Mike Braun (Indiana) $1,249,967
17. John Thune (South Dakota) $638,942
18. Shelley Moore Capito (West Virginia) $341,738
19. Richard Shelby (Alabama) $258,514
20. Chuck Grassley (Iowa) $226,007
21. John Neely Kennedy (Louisiana) $215,788
22. Ted Cruz (Texas) $176,274
23. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) $146,262
24. Steve Daines (Montana) $123,711
25. Cindy Hyde-Smith (Mississippi) $109,547
26. Roger Wicker (Mississippi) $106,680
27. Rand Paul (Kentucky) $104,456
28. Mike Rounds (South Dakota) $95,049
29. John Boozman (Arkansas) $82,352
30. John Cornyn (Texas) $78,945
31. Ben Sasse (Nebraska) $68,623
32. Jim Inhofe (Oklahoma) $66,758
33. Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) $55,961
34. Mike Crapo (Idaho) $55,039
35. Jerry Moran (Kansas) $34,718
36. John Barrasso (Wyoming) $26,989
37. John Hoeven (North Dakota) $22,050
38. Susan Collins (Maine) $19,638
39. James Lankford (Oklahoma) $18,955
40. Jim Risch (Idaho) $18,850
41. Tim Scott (South Carolina) $18,513
42. Kevin Cramer (North Dakota) $13,255

Wow. 13 million dollars for Mitt Romney at the top of the list. I was initially surprised to see Ted Cruz way down at number 22, with only $176,274. But I wonder, is that because it didn't really take much to get him to sell out?

I also wondered, how much other gun money, blood money, did they accept from other sources. I mean, this is just the NRA. What about the gun makers and others involved in the industry of making war weapons for American civilians?

And one more thing. Since this is a site about Christianity, I couldn't help but wonder, how many of these senators, who accepted money from the NRA, to protect their right to make and sell military weapons, made with the intent to kill people, are also claiming to be Christians? I wrote something the other day titled, What makes someone a self-proclaimed Christian? I urge you to check it out. See if this claim to be Christian is real. What will they hear, from God, at the end of their lives? Well done, good and faithful servant? Or, I never knew you. Away from me you evildoers.

The first one - well done is from this passage.

The Parable of the Talents

25:14-30 Ref—Lk 19:12-27