Periodically an article comes across your path that just must be shared! Here it is in its uncut form. It was taken from Paul Harvey who read this on his radio show.

“For the life of me, I can't understand what could have gone wrong in Littleton, Colo. If only the parents had kept their children away from the guns, we wouldn't have had such a tragedy. Yeah, it must have been the guns.

It couldn't have been because half of our children are being raised in broken homes.

It couldn't have been because our children get to spend an average of 30 seconds in meaningful conversation with their parents each day. After all, we give our children quality time.

It couldn't have been because we treat our children as pets and our pets as children. It couldn't have been because we place our children in day care centers where they learn their socialization skills among their peers under the law of the jungle while employees who have no vested interest in the children look on and make sure that no blood is spilled.

It couldn't have been because we allow our children to watch, on average, seven hours of television a day filled with the glorification of sex and violence that isn't fit for adult consumption.

It couldn't have been because we allow our children to enter into virtual worlds in which, to win the game, one must kill as many opponents as possible in the most sadistic way possible.

It couldn't have been because we have sterilized and contracepted our families down to sizes so small that the children we do have are so spoiled with material things that they come to equate the receiving of the material with love.

It couldn't have been because our children, who historically have been seen as a blessing from God, are now being viewed as either a mistake created when contraception fails or inconveniences that parents try to raise in their spare time.

It couldn't have been because our nation is the world leader in developing a culture of death in which 20 million to 30 million babies have been killed by abortion.

It couldn't have been because we give two-year prison sentences to teenagers who kill their newborns.

It couldn't have been because our school systems teach the children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have revolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud by teaching evolution as fact and by handing out condoms as if they were candy.

It couldn't have been because we teach our children that there are no laws of morality that transcend us, that everything is relative and that actions don't have consequences. What the heck, the president gets away with it!

Nah, it must have been the guns.”

I would like to add some quotes from Kay Arther's (Precept Ministries, Chattanooga, Tenn.) July 1999 newsletter. She asked, “Have you ever stopped to wonder why humanity cannot achieve peace on this earth? It's not that we lack brilliant and talented men and women. Will it even be possible for man to straighten out man?

Man and women persist in believing that they can instill the moral, ethical structure of Jesus' teaching without instilling Jesus as their king. The nations want peace but not the Prince of Peace!”

Yes, the violence in the schools was aided by easy access to guns by adults that didn't secure these guns from their children, but if guns were not available the Columbine youth would have used something else!

Intelligent gun legislation is necessary but legislation is a Band-Aid on a big sore. It does not address the virus! Violence in our society is a HEART PROBLEM!

The heart of our nation and its citizens need a heart transplant and who to do it better than the Great Physician, Jesus Christ!

(Dr. Knox Herndon is a recently retired U.S. Army chaplain and pastor of His House Community Church, 193 Johnson Ave., Fayetteville, behind the Mask Tire Co. Herndon can be reached at 770-719-2365 or by e-mail, KHern2365@aol.com.)

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