We are Abolitionists

How are abolitionists of human abortion different?

Abolitionists of abortion are engaging for equal protection from murder under the law for all. We are calling for the total and immediate abolition of child sacrifice.

We are not "overnighters". We will be not cast down and give up if the bill doesn't get heard in committee or doesn't get to the floor. Duty is ours. Results are God's.

We do not compromise with unjust measures to look like we are getting "something" done. We will not follow a multitude to do evil that good may come. We will not be guided by polls, we will not be swayed by the number of chariots or horses, I mean votes, there are on which side. We go by the shout of the King.

We continue to call for justice and plead for truth. We love our neighbors as ourselves. We will not be weary in well doing, but shall keep pressing, rising to smite again with truth, raising the banner, day after day, session after session, until justice is established.

We will not exchange the truth for a lie. We will not embrace partiality along the way. We will not celebrate iniquity. We will not be enamored with feigned love.

So many will try to treat the ending of abortion like a political game with different plays to get some yardage, or other such analogies. THIS IS NO GAME. It is the MURDER of MILLIONS of our most vulnerable neighbors.

Howsoever, I will say...

I am willing to play the long game.

I am NOT willing to play the wrong game.

Abortion must be abolished. Not Regulated.

[I Chronicles 19:13; Proverbs 11:1; Deuteronomy 16:19-20; Exodus 23:2; Romans 3:8; Psalm 20:7; Numbers 32:21; Isaiah 59:4; James 2:8; Galatians 6:9; Ecclesiastes 12:1; Psalm; 94:16; Psalm 60:4; Luke 18:3-5; Amos 5:15; Romans 1:25; I Timothy 5:21; I Corinthians 13:6]

Just Follow What is Altogether Just

Thus saith the LORD: “Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.  Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.  That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee” (Deuteronomy 16:18-20).

This passage of Scripture in which God lays out how leaders in Israel were to rule justly, and what the people were to follow is instructive.  Let the leaders and people of today pay heed.  As Jehoshaphat later warned leaders in Judah, “…Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.”  Ye will answer to God, who is the Ruler of all.  It is recorded in Scripture, "Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people."  God has granted in these united States, that the people of the states choose our leaders and are to keep them accountable. What are we to follow? That which is altogether just.  For God is Just, and we answer to Him.  Micah 6:8 "He hath shewed thee, O man, what i good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"

Consider the three fold instruction in Deuteronomy 16:19. 

1. "Thou shalt not wrest judgment."

What does "wrest" mean? That is wrestle away justice, depriving the innocent of protection of the law. DO NOT compromise justice.  Today, the preborn are the ONLY people group who are denied equal protection from murder in our society. ProLife legislation regulating how, when, where, why and in what circumstances abortion can be done are allowing murder as long as one hops through their hoops.  This violates God's statute here.

2. "Thou shalt not respect persons."

DO NOT be partial in judgment.  Punish the evildoer.  Protect the innocent. Making bills that protect those whose heartbeat can be protected or who are known to feel pain, is showing them partiality over those younger and more vulnerable.  Making bills that do not establish equal justice for born and preborn shows respect to persons, and transgresses God's precepts. 

3. "Neither take a gift."  

Thou shalt not receive bribes. DO NOT compromise for money's sake.  As the verse warns, "for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous."  Taking a gift can cause one to to act not for the sake of precept and principle, but for a price.  There are multitudes of ProLife politicians who shrink back from putting forth, coauthoring, or promoting bills of abolition, that  establish equal protection for all from murder, because they are afraid that groups that donate to campaigns may not applaud that action.  Do what is JUST because God's word commands it and you answer to Him.

Abortion is the murder of innocent image bearers of the living God.  

It is unjust to murder them.  And it is unjust to allow them to be murdered under color of law.  And yet, in every state, regulating homicide is what the ProLife leadership does.  Making rules about when, where, how, and in what circumstances you can murder your child is NOT treating abortion like murder.  It is treating abortion like what the proaborts say it is- "healthcare".  Abortion is NOT healthcare.  it is the homicide of the most innocent and vulnerable of humans.  If you treat murder as if it is a medical treatment, and allow it as long as they follow rules you set, and then ask God to bless your efforts, you are raising bloody hand to pray.

"Surely those who shed the blood of the preborn - Will be judged by God, Whom they do scorn        And those who allow it do share in the stain - Are found to be taking God's name - in vain." 

I have been told, "You are just against bills of regulation because they're just not ENOUGH for you."

NO. I am against regulating abortion because it is not JUST.

We live in a culture that is at peace with child sacrifice, and perverts justice.  

-The government sworn to protect the innocent from murder protects the murder of the innocent.  

-The society that purports to be against bullies promotes the bullying of babies to death.  

-The medical community that is sworn to "do no harm" are the ones who practice the murder.  

-And the ProLife community seeks to regulate the murder, and end up permitting the murder they oppose, up ending justice.

In such a day, Christians must follow what God says, forsake partiality and consistently call on their leaders to do justice! Jesus is King! Demand what He commands: 

"That which is altogether just shalt thou follow."  Just follow what is "altogether just".

"Saviour, let me not make man's wisdom my trust - But rather to heed Thy way which is just.  From paths of compromise make me depart - Search me, O God, and lead my heart."  

God is Just, So Abortion must - be ABOLISHED.

SHOCK! The U.S. Supreme Court Did Not Give Women the Right to Have Abortions?

We have been lied to, folks.

The U.S. Supreme Court did not give women the right to have abortions!

The pro-choice activists have sidestepped the issue and boldly claim that a woman has a constitutional right to end an unwanted pregnancy.  And sadly, many in the pro-life political establishment also believe a woman's right to an abortion is constitutional.  However this is ignoring a glaring fact.

The fact:  The Supreme Court cannot make laws.  In 1973, the "right" to kill a preborn child was a perverted opinion impudently made by a panel of judges--and that is all.  

Abortion is MURDER.  And murder is unconstitutional (making the Roe v. Wade null), no matter your size, stage of development, or location.  Abortion is not something a woman chooses to do to her own body. 

It is a woman making the decision to kill another person's body.

No court has the jurisdiction to give someone the right to murder an innocent person.  

You may not like your neighbor, but no matter how inconvenient it is to have him live next door you have no right to shoot him to death (the same is true of your child who lives in your house and eats all your food). 

There is never a good reason to commit murder.  No matter how desperate the situation--deciding to kill an innocent human being is will never be the right choice. 

So let us be reasonable.  

Destroy misinformation.

Ignore Roe and defy tyrants.

Establish equal justice for all people.

Abortion is not a Right.

Abortion is a Wrong.



"It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law" (Psalm 119:126).

Abortion must be abolished.

KC Double Homicide and Hypocrisy

This year, right in my hometown (Kansas City, Kansas), a pregnant woman was killed by another woman!

The crime took place just blocks from where I grew up! Jocelyn Ybarra (23) and her unborn child (12 weeks) were slaughtered on North 41st Terrace (near Parallel Parkway and Highway 635) on Saturday, June 2nd. And on August 9th, Wyandotte County prosecutors charged Alora Mendoza (26), with TWO COUNTS of first degree murder, and one count of aggravated robbery.

Last month, on November 9th, 2018, Mendoza plead guilty to two counts of second degree murder, taking a plea bargain.

This reckless murder of a woman and her tiny baby is a travesty indeed! It is yet another horrific consequence that abounds in a culture of death--a society that parades its sin and takes pleasure in the shedding of innocent blood! 

We pray for the Lord to work in the hearts of all the families impacted by this incident, and especially for the salvation of Alora though repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.

But what I want to focus your attention on in this post is the hypocrisy this story brings to light!

The hypocrisy in the Media:

Notice the bold headline as the Kansas City Star reports on this tragedy--"Murder charges filed in killing of pregnant KCK woman and her unborn child."

Tony Rizzo, writer for the acclaimed Star, just recognized, acknowledged, and set apart Jocelyn's 12 week fetus as a separate individual!  Alora was charged with not just one murder, but two!  When she participated in the taking of one life, she most decidedly took the life of another as well!  

The thing is, that the Kansas City Star for years has been and is still a voice and champion for abortion.  They ripped into Phil Kline when he sought to investigate abortionists like George Tiller, they bemoan the closing of abortion mills, and constantly treat the murder of the preborn as simply a woman's right to be protected.

And they call the second victim in this case, "her unborn child"? 

 You can't have it both ways!  You can't call it a baby when you want it and a fetus when you don't!  You can't make an appointment with an OB when a baby fits into your plans and the abortion mill when a baby doesn't!  What madness!  It takes hypocrisy to a whole new level!  

And the same goes for the journalists and news companies!  You can't write in sympathy for a victim and/or use your words to place moral judgement on someone's actions when covering a major story just because the victim was wanted and then publicly advocate for the mass murder of those same victims when they are not wanted!  Well, you can, but it is ludicrous!

And that is exactly what the Kansas City Star has done! 

But it is not just the media whose inconsistency is glaring.  Consider the justice system:

The hypocrisy in the Justice System:

                


Some 38 states have fetal homicide laws, including the state of Kansas.
In Kansas they charged Mendoza with a double homicide--the killing of a mother and her child.  Two murders, because there were two humans slain.  

But if Jocelyn Ybarra had walked into Planned Parenthood with that same baby at the exact same gestational age, and hired Ronald Yeomans or Orrin Moore (KC Area abortionists) to crush the baby to death, there would have been no murder charge.  

Why?  Because abortion has been made legal in this Nation by color of law!  The justice system has been wickedly perverted.  

There is only one little word that makes the difference in these two scenarios and that is the word wanted.  In my State, as in many other States, a child is only considered worthy of value to be protected or to seek justice for, if they are wanted! 

But does wantedness determine humanity?

If being wanted is what really makes you human (and this is what the justice system has arbitrarily set) then you can not blame Hitler for killing the Jews!  Hitler did not want the Jews.

Of course the Jews were people--but they were conveniently ruled to be "not fully human" by a justice system that wanted to do wrong.  And everyone knows that that what was done to them was evil.

Every person is created in the image of God.  And that starts at the moment of conception.  We must raise our voices and demand equal protection from murder for ALL humans! 

Humans are human, whether you want them alive or not.

Human beings do not become less human when you want them dead.

The mother's womb should never become the ghetto and gas chamber for the holocaust of the least among us.

Hypocrisy is rife:

In our press, 
in our courts, 
in our streets,

and in our hearts?

We as a society NEED to repent!

Abortion MUST be abolished.

It Is Loving to Prosecute Murder

Question: After abortion becomes abolished as homicide, should women who still choose to hire someone to abort their children face any type of punishment?

Many Christian and Prolife leaders have protested that this would not be loving.

Many well-intentioned Christians would say that to make the mother prosecutable for the abortion of her son or daughter would be UNLOVING. 

However, it is the LOVE of Christ which constrains me to share the following. Please hang on with me as you read, for the truth's sake.  Here goes.

It will always be the most loving to treat murder as what it is—therefore, the abortionist and the mother who is are pursuing the murder of an innocent child should be prosecuted.  

One reason that empathy falls too heavy on the side of the mother for even those who seek justice for the preborn is largely due to women being broadly painted (by the prolife movement) as one of the victims in the abortion act.  But the fact is, no matter how they have be deceived, they know full well what they are doing.  Standing at the gates of death, I have seen and heard countless women who unashamedly shout that it is their right to kill their baby!  They laugh and mock what I am doing and tell me that I should do something worthwhile, like, save a tree.  They curse at me and my wife and children.  They rationalize their premeditated murder away and boast that it is "legal", which makes it "okay".  

Now abortion WILL brutalize the mother.  It will bring spiritual, emotional, and physical consequences—just as it does to all who murder—but especially to the abortive women, since the victim is her own child.  The mother who murders her baby in the womb may do so in a desperate situation, and MAY do so believing a lie.  But for the sake of God's word and true mercy on the baby that has been abused to death by the signed consent of his/her mother, we must treat the mother (in a desperate situation) who murders her baby at 3 months gestation no differently than the mother (in a desperate situation) who murders her 3 year old.

AGAIN will I state it.

If we do not treat it as such, we are hypocrites, guilty of having "respect of persons", and are perverting justice and equity (James 2:4,8-9).

If we will not truly treat abortion as murder, we are not only acting treacherously against our God and neighbor (thus breaking the first and second greatest commandments: Matthew 22:37-40), but we are also communicating to the ungodly that we don't really think it is the same as murder, and further entrenches the abomination of child sacrifice AS JUSTIFIED in our society.  That is UNLOVING to the lost all about us.  We undermine our position, and they see our inconsistency.

We Christians need to repent of our apathy, our compromise, and our inconsistency with God's law and grace.

We must agree with true justice and equity based in the Scripture, and protect the innocent and punish the evildoer.  

We need to cry mightily unto God, as the king of Nineveh decreed (Jonah 3:8-9), that God may have mercy on our nation.  If we stand for some lives and not for others, we become human rights hypocrites, failing to love our neighbor.

PUNISHING MURDER IS LOVING!

—IT IS LOVING to the real victims, the children in danger of destruction, showing care and respect to the value of their lives.

—IT IS LOVING to the millions already slain, vindicating their humanity and worth as image-bearers of their Creator.

—IT IS LOVING to other preborn children, who will not be murdered because their parents do not want to be punished as murderers.  It will be unfeigned love, for it will give them equal protection under the law.

—IT IS LOVING to parents, who will not murder their babies now that it is a punishable offense, thus sparing them becoming guilty of their children's slaughter.

—IT IS LOVING to the mother, already guilty of murder herself, giving her swift opportunity to face up to what she has done, repent of it, and find salvation and healing in Christ Jesus alone, thus removing YEARS of guilt, cover up, justification, and hardening, and if unrepentant rejecting Christ, eternal torment.  Also the father, if he was pursuing that murder as well.

—IT IS LOVING to families being pressured by angry relatives to abort, giving them the ability to say, "You're telling me to commit a felony?  To MURDER?"  Thus giving the legal clout to stand their ground.

—IT IS LOVING to the abortionists who will stop aborting because it is a punishable offense, bringing before their conscience the seriousness of their violence before the court of the Lord, showing them the depth of their sin, that he or she may personally face up to what they did, to repent, crying to God for mercy, and trusting in Jesus alone to save them from their sin, including their blood guiltiness.  It gives them more impetus to "cease to do evil, Learn to do well" (Isaiah 1:16-17). 

—IT IS LOVING to those in the medical profession or medical schools who may be tempted to seek that line of murderous occupation and will now be turned away by the knowledge of punishment they will be spared the guilt of murder on their conscience and record (Proverbs 19:25).

—IT IS LOVING to the abortionist who refuses to stop killing, for punishing him will stop him from adding to his "kill count", and thus his blood guiltiness before God.  It will remove any rationale of being a "hero of women" or being viewed as "a pillar in the community".  It can show him his sin in all its ramifications, and can humble him and bring him to the only place where he can find cleansing for his mass murders--at the foot of the cross, by the shed blood of the Lamb.

—IT IS LOVING to the other employees at the murder mills who will forsake it or not apply to work there because they don't wish to be punished as partakers of murder so that they may forsake the foolish and live, repenting of their involvement and be saved.

—IT IS LOVING to our society at large, bringing the perceived value of all life back to the place where it belongs.  Is it any surprise that people today are murdering fellow students, fellow employees, neighbors, family members, friends, enemies, and strangers, when we will countenance the murder of the MOST vulnerable and the MOST innocent?

—IT IS LOVING to the victims of rape, under aged and incestual molestation, and human trafficking, whose attackers, oppressors, and "owners" are escaping the evidence of their wickedness by pressuring or forcing to have the baby killed, covering up their crimes, and therefore presently being able to continue oppressing this victim and others.

—IT IS LOVING to the neighborhoods, communities, states, and this nation, in the midst of whom, innocent blood has been shed, to resolve that guilt and satisfy the demand of justice (see the example of the an unsolved murder in Deuteronomy 21:1-9), turning away impending judgment.  It is a humbling and acknowledgement of the evil we are guilty of, and, as some have said, "giving God a reason to show mercy", rather than arrogantly and proudly denying our bloody crime in the face of judgment.  It is "standing in the gap", repairing the breach, that God would not destroy us as we deserve (Ezekiel 22:30, but really the entire chapter). 

—IT IS LOVING to our Creator, the Maker of heaven and earth, "The Power that hath made and preserved us a nation" thus far, the Giver of Life and Life Everlasting, the One Who has granted inalienable rights in the first place, that we would be acknowledging His truth, recognizing and turning away from our perversion of justice and the slaughter of those made in His image.

—IT IS LOVING to our nation to remember that if our cause is NOT just, we will not CONQUER, or we will CONQUER in vain.  We must turn our hearts to turn the course of this people.  Let us who fear God, in returning the laws from targeting millions of our citizens to be massacred, instead to reflect liberty and justice for all, truly trusting God for the results, and do what is right. 

If we as Christians do not consistently obey and speak the truth in our society, as salt and light, if we are recreant to our responsibility, how can we expect our society to return to right and justice?  If we refuse to speak the truth, we expose our lack of love to all these.  We become manifest as hypocrites.

From a child, I have loved the Star Spangled Banner, our national anthem.  I love the words, the music, and the history behind it.  My favorite verse being the final one:

"And thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand

Between their loved homes and the war's desolation

Blest with vic'try and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust'

And the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave."

That we may not vainly say, "In God we trust" when we do not follow His commands.  

Jesus said, "And why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" (Luke 6:46).

"Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good."(Romans 12:9).  "Love without dissimulation" means that we are not just pretending to love, feigning that we care, but actually loving with sincerity, with a pure heart fervently (I Peter 1:22).

We MUST show love without dissimulation.

Abortion MUST be abolished.

Answering the Prolife "Burning Building" Argument

As abolitionists speak up to point out the problems of regulating abortion legislatively, we find that many people in the Prolife Movement will react.  This is only natural, as regulating abortion like it is healthcare has been the conventional "wisdom" for decades.

The following is an online retort from a prolifer that I received, and is a common argument by those who still think it is good to make laws that incrementally regulate abortion instead of laws that will abolish it altogether.  

"If I were to apply your logic to a house fire with a family of 5 and I knew I could only save 2, by your logic I shouldn't even attempt to save the two because, hey, I can't save them all, so why bother trying?"

This is my answer...

The house on fire illustration is not really a comparable parallel.  We are not talking about a burning building, but the intentional slaughter of children. 

But, to follow that logic, if I came upon a burning house, I would definitely save as many people still inside as I could.  That is why I go to the abortion mills to preach the Gospel and plead for my preborn neighbors--I know there are babies inside dying.  I have held babies in my arms that I have been able to rescue (pull out, as it were, from the burning building) in the face of threats and curses. 

I go to save as many as I can.

BUT

If abortion was a burning building, it would not be just (or right or good) to make a law allowing people government protection to toss some of their children into the fire as long as they were a certain age. 

Just as it would be unjust to make a law that would only allow the rescue of that certain age. 

Can you imagine? A law that requires the protection the older children, but does nothing to secure the safety of those younger, is WRONG and EVIL.    

We must protect ALL human life, born and unborn, no matter the gestational age, no matter the Supreme Court's opinions, no matter the pragmatic advice given by those in the prolife movement.

Jeremiah 22:3 "Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and DO NO WRONG , do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place."

Isaiah 1:16-17 "Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; CEASE TO DO EVIL; LEARN TO DO WELL; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow." 

Abortion must be abolished.

Blaming the Vacuum...Who's REALLY Responsible?

No question...

In a multitude of cases in which children are murdered through abortion, a vacuum is used.

However...

Making laws that ban all vacuums is not the answer.

There are many good and proper uses of a vacuum.

What needs to be recognized is that it is man's sinful heart that must be addressed, and the evil deed itself that must be abolished instead of given protection under "color of law".  The law should protect the innocent and punish the guilty.

Vacuums ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE.

People ARE.

Physicians who forsake their role of healing in order to commit violence upon the weak ARE RESPONSIBLE.

Parents who seek out and hire a murderer to kill their babies ARE RESPONSIBLE.

Magistrates who forsake the law to allow the slaughter of their most vulnerable citizens to continue, and not only permit, but protect the right to murder the babies as is it is okay, however much those magistrates may claim to be "for life", however much those magistrates may regulate that slaughter, they ARE RESPONSIBLE.

The society that is at peace with the murders and make excuses for it ARE RESPONSIBLE

Christians who believe the murders are wrong, but are not willing to obey God through loving their neighbors actively in bringing the Gospel into conflict with the evil, JUSTLY opposing the evil, and seeking its abolition ARE RESPONSIBLE.

WE must repent of whatever part we have played, whether it be complicity, compromise, collaboration, callousness, cowardice, or complacency.

Abortion must be abolished.

School Shootings—Safe, Legal, and Rare

School shootings are horrible and tragic.  There have been so many in the past few years.  The first one I recall hearing about as a youth was the one in Columbine, Colorado.  It shocked and grieved the nation, and has not been forgotten. It should not be forgotten. Almost 19 years later today, when I googled the word Columbine in making this post, the first three suggestions that I was given to go with that word were shooter, death toll, and victim.  

There have been many measures taken and arguments made since that tragic day to endeavor to oppose, stop, inhibit, and prevent school shootings.  Some have been more effective than others.  Some have been righteous and reasonable and just.  Others have not.  

But still shootings have continued to happen.  One source claims that there have been some 50 mass murders or attempted mass murders at a schools since Columbine.¹

As I pondered this last horrific act in Florida, I was struck with a new innovative way to deal with those committing the crisis.  Maybe, just maybe, this would affect the frequency that seems to be escalating with school shootings.

I mean, we know now that these attacks at schools are going to happen.  Even though it is illegal, there will always be someone who will want to do it anyway—the danger, the fame, and the thought of defying the law seems to make it that much more appealing to a segment of our culture.  So, maybe our society should try another ploy.  Maybe we should legalize school shootings.

Some reasoning...

1. The shooter is a victim too.  Many only commit this crime because they are confused, feel pressured by the voices in their head, feel rejected by their peers, or are desperate for attention.  We don't know what some of these individuals have experienced or the circumstances that would bring them to such a decision, so we really shouldn't judge them.  Some have mental issues and nearly all of them have been taught (by their own educational institutions) that there is no real basis for right and wrong—we are all merely evolved animals, simply bi-pedal protoplasm, and there is no purpose in life nor any Judge to face after this life is over.  Our society has thus made the case that there is no absolute truth and therefore can not consistently condemn any act as wrong.  We have taught our children to do what they feel like doing anyway, therefore, these "deranged" individuals are victims as well, and really shouldn't be prosecuted.   

If school shootings become legal*, these shooters can act consistently with what they have been taught, and not be shamed or feel guilty about their actions.  They won't have to hide what they are planning to do, and it will give others more chances to talk with them and maybe change their mind without slurring the ethics of their actions.  After all, it is a choice they have and we shouldn't keep people from their right to choose.

2. Illegal shootings are dangerous.  

Shooters today are doing this at great risk to themselves.  Think about what they have to worry about:
—conceal/carry people possibly being nearby. 
—the likelihood that someone may call the police. 
—the odds that they may be hurt themselves.

The very real fact in school shootings, as in other public square shootings, is that, more often than not, the school shooter ends up dead himself.  School shootings need to be made more safe...for the shooter.

If school shootings become legal, these shooters will be so much more likely to survive.  They won't have to worry about the police or conceal and carry individuals.  And after all safety is our goal, right?  I mean, once school shootings become protected, society will not want to go back to when shooters had to take such risks.  And think of the money that will be saved when government schools won't have to pay for security systems, guards, etc.

3. The notoriety factor is a thing.  

Some people want the fame of being a rebel against authority—of being the subject of news reports, twitter feeds, and conversations—even if they die before getting a chance to read the blazing reports.  They feel they left a mark on society.  That they got even.  They want to have the same flash as other shooters before them, thus the "copycat syndrome" takes effect.   

If school shootings become legal, well, there goes the acclaim, the excitement of rebelling, the feeling of exhilaration over taking on the government.  It will become a mundane, boring thing to murder the innocent sitting in the lunchroom.  It will lose its appeal for many. It will become less common.

4. The power of regulation. 

When a thing becomes permitted by the government, it comes somewhat under control of said government.  The state has a say in how an act can be committed.  And our government has shown a great talent in making rules and restrictions.  This will only curb and lessen the amounts of school shootings, and minimize the devastation even further.

If school shootings become legal, it will provide an avenue to regulate and control school shooting in so many ways.  I think it very likely that a pro-school safety movement will arise, providing much legislation and work to create a culture of change.  They will most likely get support from concerned citizens, including the religious population, to oppose school shootings in this way.  

Here are a few of the regulations that could be made that feasibly could be passed without violating the shooter's right to choose (the possibilities are endless):  

—A person must apply for a school shooting license and attain certain level of training in order to perform a shooting.  If there has to be school shootings, let us ensure that they are done by a licensed professional.
—Enact a school shooting tax, and put it towards government education.  If they have to pay to commit the shooting, it will decrease how many will pursue that path.
—Establish a 24 hour waiting period after they have determined to carry out the act.  If they have to think about it for a day, some will choose not to do it.  How could anyone be against such a bill?  It will prevent impulsive shootings.  It will give precedent, and maybe in a decade or so, the waiting period would be pushed to a 72 hour wait.
—Require minor shooters to have written parental permission.  This should be a no-brainer.
—Create education bills that will be effective to let the shooter know that those they plan to kill are human as well—that they are breathing, heart beating individuals.  They will  be informed at what ages students are likely to have learned to tie their shoes, to be able to whistle or read, diagram a sentence, or solve a trigonometry problem.  This will demonstrate how like themselves they are.  This will hopefully establish their compassion toward those they want to get rid of, and may help a shooter to reconsider and turn them away from such a hideous act.  After such education, these troubled shooters may even become pro-school safety themselves.
—Establish a bill to ban the shooting of those who will be graduating this year from college or university since they are almost out of school as fully developed members of the government trained society.  Then maybe a bill that protects all college students, since we can prove that they are not as dependent as those in high school (well maybe not, but this may encourage more to be independent and self supporting).  A win-win in anyone's book.  At least those who have graduated are, on the average, more viable members of society than grade-schoolers.  And as college students can go to the polls, this will likely have abundant voter support.  Some may say that this is not fair to younger students, but hey, if it saves one life it must be good.  We will assure any nay-sayers that at a later date those who are younger (and just as valuable, of course) will also be protected by law.  Victim age restriction will secure saved lives.  
—Procedure rules are a must.  Here are a few ideas:
a. A bill that bans the use of bombs since that weapon of choice is much more messy, could endanger the shooter himself, or could kill even neighbors and bystanders in the public square.  Bombs will also cause more damage to structures, costing the state more money.  Voters will see the virtue in not further affecting their wallets.
b. A bill requiring (or at least be highly recommending) shooters to wear protective body armor. Some students will seek to defend themselves and safety to the shooter should be chief in our concern, for we are compassionate.  Of course, as it becomes illegal to shoot in colleges, and then in the high school (maybe 15 years into this kind of legislation), the instance of fighting back will become less common.  Come to think of it, the fact that a college student may fight back with more gusto than those who are younger would provide more evidence of their viability, strengthening the case to ban all college shootings.
c. Anesthetization requirements could be a powerful measure.  Making it a rule that the students be chloroformed, or numbed in someway before being shot, will further establish the fact that school shootings are painful, and might even turn a shooter away from doing it.  If there is going to be a school shooting (and we have established that this is a fact), isn't it better to at least cut down on the pain the students have to undergo while we try to stop it all together? 

Finally, someday, there may be a time when school shootings become only a very occasional occurrence, because of the hassle of the red tape required.

The slogan for these measure could be something like:

"School shooting—Safe, Legal, and Rare."

[Note: This post is not to be construed as an actual justified plan, nor is it meant to be disrespectful or unfeeling towards those affected by school shootings.  It is only simply applying some of the widely accepted thinking and tactics used by prochoicers and prolifers in the area of abortion—another mass homicide being enacted daily on innocent victims. If we would be horrified at such reasoning and strategy against school shootings, should we not be just as appalled at the use of such reasoning for the murder of the preborn—an even greater epidemic—a more systemic slaughter of fellow human beings?  We need to repent of ageism, the failure to love our neighbors as we love ourselves, and the neglect of justice and equity in our opposition of evil.]

Inequity is Iniquity.  Let us not be hypocrites.

Consider the words of God to those who fail to justly oppose evil (Psalm 82:2-5)... 

"How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah."
"Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy."
"Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked."
"They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course."

*the use of the word "legal" in this post is meant to mean government sanctioned.  I do NOT consider school shootings to be lawful, whatever our society deems permissible.  Concerning this post, I echo the words of Paul, who said "I speak as a fool" to show the error of this folly.

I am taking the route laid out by God, in Proverbs 26:4-5, the don't answer/answer method.
:4 "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him."
:5 "Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit."


I do not accept the compromised thinking of those who oppose the evil in an unjust manner, but I do use the compromised thinking to illustrate the error of that thinking in order to help those who have accepted the compromised position without carefully weighing out the question according to the truth and justice of the God of the Bible.

It should be manifest that...

Abortion is murder of the preborn in the same way that shooting students is murder of the born.

It is not just to regulate murdering humans.
Abortion must be abolished.

¹ ABCNews http://abcnews.go.com/US/school-shootings-columbine-numbers/story?id=36833245

Frederick Douglass, Abolitionist

Today marks two hundred and one years since the birth of Frederick Douglass, a runaway slave, who became an abolitionist, orator, author, editor, statesman, and preacher of the Gospel (as well as becoming the most photographed American of the 19th century).  This bold Christian man became renowned as the "Lion of Abolition."

The following are some quotes of his, which I believe may be beneficial to those seeking to abolish the evil of child sacrifice in our day.  Every age has its evils.  Every age has its abolitionists.  Let us reflect on his words.  

On Prayer & Action - “I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”

On the REAL Problem, or Question - “There is no negro problem.  The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough to live up to their own Constitution.”

On Free Speech  - “To suppress free speech is a double wrong.  It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”

On the effect upon his life after his Salvation - “I loved all mankind, slaveholders included, though I hated slavery more than ever.”

On true Christianity - “I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hate the corrupt, slave-holding, women whipping, cradle plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.”

On Being a Nation's True Friend - “I am one of those who think the best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins – and he, her worst enemy, who, under the specious and popular garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate, and defend them.” April 15, 1846

On Reactions to Shining Light on Wrong  - “Men do not love those who remind them of their sins.”

On National Security - “The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”

On Justice and Peace in Society - "Where there is no justice, there is no peace."

On Demanding Justice - “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.  Power concedes nothing without a demand.  It never did and it never will.  Without a struggle, there can be no progress.  It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.  We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”

On Agitation - “Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”

On the Fear of Man - “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”

On Tolerance and Tyranny - “Find out what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”

On Standing Alone - “One and God make a majority.”

On his One Political Idea - "I have one great political idea...That idea is an old one.  It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is very generally trampled upon and disregarded.  The best expression of it, I have found in the Bible.  It is in substance, 'Righteousness exalteth a nation; sin is a reproach to any people' [Proverbs 14:34]...This constitutes my politics -- the negative and positive of my politics, and the whole of my politics...I feel it my duty to do all in my power to infuse this idea into the public mind, that it may speedily be recognized and practiced upon by our people."

O, FOR CHRISTIANS TO AWAKEN TO RIGHTEOUSNESS, FIRED WITH ZEAL FROM FAITH IN THE SCRIPTURES, AND CONSTRAINED BY THE LOVE OF CHRIST!

O, FOR HEROES TO RISE TODAY, AND SPEAK WITH THE FACES OF LIONS!

Abortion must be abolished.