Senseless…
My heart and prayers go out to all those who were affected by the senseless murder of 32 students at Virginia Tech University, to the families who lost loved ones, to the ones who were wounded or injured and to the student community at large.
This horrible incident has fostered a number of reactions. Of course there is a media frenzy, there is a rush to judgment to place blame, finger pointing and accusations leveled at school officials, the state and just about anybody whose head sticks up high enough to be noticed.
The incident had barely happened when the anti gun bunch came out and started their rant, as they always do. They are eager to reduce every violent shooting act to the private ownership of firearms.
They say they advocate gun control, well it may surprise you to know that I’m for gun control too. Guns in the hands of the wrong person can be deadly as has been proven over and over again. And every effort should be made to
keep guns out of the hands of those who would use them for offensive purposes.
But most of those who rave about gun control don’t mean gun control at all. They mean gun confiscation, taking firearms out of the hands of those who would use them for sport and protection.
Cho had no business with a gun or even a finger nail file for that matter. This was a sick and evil young man who had been diagnosed with mental problems and reported to the police something like five times. Yet this information was not available when he filed for ownership of a handgun.
The system failed, there’s no doubt about it but to blame Cho’s satanic behavior on his being able to legally obtain a gun is being incredibly naive. Cho’s problem went much deeper than having a legal firearm.
His problem went to the depths of his heart and soul where dark evil had taken over his very being. There is no other way that a human being could brazenly murder 32 innocent people.
Cho was a fiery time bomb just waiting to happen and would very likely have found a way to carry out his murderous rampage with or without a legal firearm.
He was bitter and jealous and blamed his problems on other people who had absolutely nothing to do with them. He was so full of hate that he would have sought out some means of committing mass murder
Mass murder has been accomplished through something as innocent as fertilizer and diesel fuel and box cutters.
The problem lies with the perpetrator, not the means they use to carry it out and until we realize that there will be no end to this senseless violence.
Such a simple thing as one state agency sharing information with another could possibly have prevented this, but no one will ever know.
I know there has been a lot of prayer offered up on the Virginia Tech campus since this tragedy has taken place and that’s a good thing.
Nobody seems to be concerned about the separation of church and state and I am hopeful that college students and all the rest of us realize that. To quote scripture, Our help cometh from the Lord.
Pray for our troops.
What do you think?
God Bless America!
Charlie Daniels
April 20, 2007
Thanks, Charlie, for putting this tragedy – and the truth – into simple language for all real Americans.
Bull, out. ![]()











































