How to Stop a Bullet

Should the government of the United States ban guns? In light of recent events, like the one in Aurora, Colorado, it seems like this is the only method to stop the shocking and senseless violence. 
Yet I can’t bring myself to support this movement to take the guns away from Americans. We still have a drug problem even with the fact that they have been made illegal. Lawbreakers find a way to smuggle a massive amount of drugs across both of borders and sell them with seemingly little problems. Why would drugs be different than firearms? I firmly believe that if having a gun was against the law, criminals or those wishing to perform a crime would still find a way to get a gun. 
So what’s the answer to stopping the violence?  The solution comes in just one word: God. 
We need God back into our society.  We need followers of Jesus to take a stand.We need men of faith to rise up and take leadership.We need women of truth to give us Godly examples of how to live our lives.We need to reclaim the Christian values that this nation once stood on.We need churches to stop bickering about what songs are sung on Sunday morning. We need Christians to fill their daily routines with Christ.
Edmund Burke said, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
This is the problem of the United States. I don’t know what the good men and women are doing right now. Sitting in the pews? We should be out in society – in the workplace, in the neighborhood, the arts, the movies, the government, in the schools, in the streets – living as true Christians. Our problems as a nation are not about the darkness growing stronger; it is about the light growing weaker.
Every book, every movie, has the idea of a superhero who comes and saves the day. The United States will be lost if we wait for someone to come because our Superhero has already arrived. He has already saved us. We need to stop delaying and take action before everything we love is gone.
So you went to church on Sunday? Did you bother to hang out with the lonely kid down the street? Did you see the tears of the single mother trying to feed her children and not being able to? It’s time to stop waiting for the government to take action. As Christians, this is the time to stand up and bring hope to the hopeless, food to the hungry, love to the friendless, freedom to the chained.
Perhaps if each and every Christian reached out to the people God has placed around them, the man who lost his business and watched his wife divorce him wouldn’t commit suicide. Perhaps we wouldn’t have to sit at his funeral and wonder what we could have done to help him.
If we could live as Christ commanded us to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and love your neighbor as yourself.”   
Then as the song says we will feel the darkness tremble. The doors will open, the music will play. The streets will resound with singing – songs that bring hope and joy.
True change begins in the heart when Christ becomes the center. It won’t matter who has guns, for the light of Christ shall shatter the darkness.
  Song quoted “Did you Feel the Darkness Tremble?”