CRAZED ATHEIST SHOOTS UP TEXAS CHURCH; DEMOCRATS CALL FOR GUN CONTROL
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Five years before Devin Patrick Kelley entered the First Baptist Church of Sutherland, Texas, on Sunday and opened fire
on the 50 or so worshippers there, he had been court-martialed for “bad
behavior.” That behavior consisted of at least two beatings of his wife
and child, which resulted in him being confined for a year and demoted.
He left the U.S. Air Force in 2014 with a dishonorable discharge.
According to federal law, someone who receives a dishonorable discharge
is not supposed to be able to purchase a gun, but Kelley had recently
done just that, after filling out the federal paperwork as he was
supposed to do. Kelley was an angry atheist, whom school acquaintances
had been unfriending from Facebook because of his angry diatribes.
Kelley, clad in black and wearing a ballistic vest, entered the
church around 11 a.m. on Sunday and opened fire with a semi-automatic
rifle, killing 26 parishioners and wounding 20 more. A neighbor,
identified as 55-year-old Stephen Willeford, reportedly was phoned and
told that someone was shooting up the church, and so he grabbed his
rifle and ran barefoot to the church to confront the shooter. Willeford
apparently then quickly shot Kelley in a crease in his body armor,
causing Kelley to drop his weapon and flee in his vehicle. Willeford
flagged down another local resident, Johnnie Langendorff, and gave
chase. After a chase reaching speeds up to 95 miles per hour, which went
approximately 12 miles, Kelley lost control and crashed. His body was
in the front seat, dead from a gunshot wound.
President Trump, during a news conference in Tokyo, said, “Mental
health is your problem here,” adding that Kelley was a “very deranged
individual.”
Seizing the opportunity, anti-gun Democrats leaped at the chance to
promote their totalitarian agenda. Far-left Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa.)
chirped, “I … believe Congress must take action on gun violence,” while
liberal Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) added, “America is in the grips of a
gun violence crisis. Congress must act.” Casey’s Freedom Index rating
(illustrating how far they have strayed from the bounds of the
Constitution in their voting records) is 10 while Durbin’s is 11 (out of
100).
Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) chimed in: “Senseless gun violence
has torn apart another community — this time in a house of worship. When
do we say enough is enough?” Harris’ FI score is 10. Senator Richard
Blumenthal (D-Conn.) was right behind proclaiming, “Horror, heartbreak,
shame. Prayers are important but insufficient. After another unspeakable
tragedy, Congress must act — or be complicit.” Blumenthal’s FI is 11.
California Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein joined the chorus: “When
will it end? When will we decide that we can’t accept massacres in our
places of worship, schools, or at concerts? When will we actually do
something about it?” Her FI rating is also a dismal 11 out of 100,
reflecting her unchanging position against the Second Amendment. She is
the one, it will be remembered, who told 60 Minutes back in
1995: “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United
States, for an outright gun ban, picking up every one of them — Mr. and
Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in I would have done it.”
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) couldn’t resist the opportunity,
either, exclaiming, “Thoughts and prayers are not enough, GOP. We must
end this violence. We must stop these tragedies. People are dying while
you wait.” Appropriately enough, Warren’s FI is 12 out of 100.
Senator Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), who chairs the House Gun Violence
Prevention Task Force, tweeted: “Sickened by yet another mass shooting
leaving people dead & injured. Congress must muster the courage to
help prevent gun violence.” His FI is 19.
But it was Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy — his FI is 13 — who was
most audacious, saying to Congress: “Ask yourself: how can you claim
that you respect human life while choosing fealty to weapons-makers over
support for measures favored by the vast majority of your
constituents?”
Where were these worthies following the truck attack in New York City
last week, calling for “truck control”? Moreover, why aren’t they
calling for the elimination of pencils, blaming them for misspelled
words, or banning steel-toed work boots when someone wearing them kicks a
dog?
Also, why aren’t they celebrating the remarkable decline in gun
violence the country has experienced as gun ownership has increased
among law-abiding citizens?
Surely they must know that punishing innocents for the behavior of a
mental case is not only a waste of time but illustrates mental
instability on their own. Surely they must know that existing gun laws
didn’t prevent Sunday’s massacre and more of them wouldn’t make any
difference. Surely they must know that ownership of a firearm ended the
Texas killing spree, but they failed to mention that. Surely most know
that, if their agenda is fulfilled, a la Feinstein, all America would be
disarmed and unable to defend itself against an out-of-control federal
government. Surely they must know that if they accomplish their mission
only criminals and government (a noxious but necessary repetition) will
have firearms. Surely they know that other totalitarians have had their
way with their subjects when those subjects were disarmed (Mao Tse-tung:
“The communist party must command all the guns. That way, no guns can
ever be used to command the party”; Adolph Hitler: “The most foolish
mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to
possess arms.”).
Surely they must know all these things and yet they persist in
turning tragedies such as this one into a speakers’ platform for their
totalitarian ideology.
Are they insane?
UPDATE: Business Insider is reporting
that Kelley did not receive a dishonorable discharge, but a “bad
conduct” discharge from the military, but because he had domestic abuse
violations and was imprisoned for a year, he should still have not been
able to purchase guns.
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Dr. Greg J. Dixon
We keep hearing the same words over and over, the worst hurricane, or
tsunami, or tornado or fire or terrorist attack, and now we have the
deadliest mass shootings in modern Texas history and the greatest church
related massacre in modern US history. It reminds us of language that
we read as it was before the flood, “… the earth is filled with
violence” (Gen 6:13).
Why does it seem that these shootings all fit the same pattern? Even
though the authorities, including President Trump tries to convince us
that the shooter is “deranged”, they all seem to have the presence of
mind to carry out their wicked deed with the utmost precision? They
also have sense enough to try and protect themselves, except for the
Muslim idiots who use bombs, by dressing in body armor? They are also
intelligent enough in the art of firearms to know which type of weapon
to use and how to use them.
Have you noticed, kill one person and after maybe twenty years of
appeals you may be executed, kill a few people and you will probably get
a life sentence until paroled after a few years, but kill many people
and they will put you in a psychiatric facility and study and treat you
until a psychiatrist deems you cured and then they will allow you to
reenter society where you can kill again.
Also have you noticed that in all of these cases there have been
tell-tale signs before the big event but apparently no one considers it
important enough to inform the authorities, and if they do, many times
they get a “brush off.” In this case Devin Patrick Kelley, according
to media outlets, was an avowed atheist, who hated church people and had
been threatening his mother-in-law who just happened to attend the
First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas. And he had just
happened to send a text to her as late as that fateful Sunday morning.
It will be interesting to find out what is in that message. Maybe he
was angry with her because she had tried to witness to him about Christ.
The spirit who is in man knows man, according to Paul the Apostle (I
Cr 2:11). And the Lord Jesus said that man’s problems proceed from
within, out of a wicked heart. “But those things which proceed out of
the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of
the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications,
thefts, false witness, blasphemies:” So man has a spiritual heart
problem and the only cure is to receive a “new heart”, by receiving the
Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom 6:23).
When Devin Patrick Kelley went into that church Sunday morning he
made a conscious choice, he chose to dress in his body armor, he chose
to pick up his weapon and ammo, he chose to drive the distance to the
First Baptist Church, which was where ex-mother-in-law had attended.
Did he expect to find them there? Who knows? But he made the choice to
aim his weapon at a little 18-month old baby, a pregnant woman, a
77-year old woman and the Pastor’s fourteen-year old daughter. He made
the choice to hate his neighbors rather than to love them as the
scripture commands.
But just maybe we can make some sense out of this tragic event to
learn some lessons for ourselves and others. May I suggest a few:
- Not one of these mass shooters have been a member of the NRA or Gun
Owners of America and yet the left continues to blame these and other 2nd Amendment groups for gun violence in the US. - Democrats have never seen a shooting that they have not seen it as an opportunity to politicize their call for a ban on guns.
- When they take our guns away who will protect us while we are waiting for the police to come when we are attacked?
- It is the anti-God, anti-Bible, anti-Christ, leftist movement in
America, including Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Muslim terrorists and
liberal extremists that display this extreme hatred for anyone who
disagrees with their ideology.
The old adage “I am from the government and I am here to help you”
has never been more apparent than in this situation. Now we find that
Kelley had been in the brig, for months, while in the US Air Force, for
beating his wife and eighteen-month old step son. However, the Air
Force had never notified the FBI which meant that he never made the
national fire arms lists that would have banned him from purchasing fire
arms. The record shows that he had bought four weapons within the past
few months including those that he used in the church house killings.
Does anyone really believe that we need to abandon the advice of the
Lord Jesus to His disciples when He said, “…he that hath no sword, let
him sell his garment, and buy one…,” referring to living in the real
world. Every church in America should have it’s own security force, not
for offense but defense.
- This is the time for all of us to come to the aide of these dear
Christian brothers and sisters who have lost so much, not only in prayer
but with our gifts.
- And last If this is your day to die, what a better place to be
killed than with other Christian believers, in church, worshipping the
Lord Jesus Christ.
These twenty-six Christian believers along with those who were
injured will take their place alongside those martyrs of the ages who
can say with the great Apostle to the Gentiles, “But none of these
things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I
might finish my course with joy…”
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