It is becoming an all too often a familiar story, a policeman uses deadly force to stop a person who will not surrender peacefully and either the policeman or the citizen is killed. It is most often the citizen and that citizen is a minority of one type or another.
Before long there is resentment and anger because many in the media or among the community leaders stir up the people as to the unfairness of the killing.
What is the root cause of this problem? Do we have a mostly racist police force across America from sea to shining sea or do we have citizens whether or not they are a minority who fail to obey lawful orders of the officers charged to protect and serve their communities?
The issues are not as cut and dry as so many progressive liberals bent on lawlessness and central control would have us believe. There are racist police officers in American police forces, in fact, all the various nationalities tend to have problems with people different from themselves that is part of the human condition, but it is more than a few officers with stronger feelings toward a particular ethnicity.
It is more than the criminal element that refuses to obey a lawful order given by a policeman of any race, and by the way, most police forces in America are made up of an ethnically diverse population.
The shootings are being caused by more than the bad administration of American mayors like Rahm Emanuel or Richard Berry. It was Albuquerque mayor Richard Berry who gave the Duke City the highest murder rate it has seen in a while in 2015 by his poor and weak handling of the James Boyd shooting.
Chicago mayor Emanuel has made gun ownership even more difficult in that city and allowed police there to get away with a bad shooting.
The point is that there is a big problem with shootings in America between police and citizens but who is to blame?
We all are to blame for where we find ourselves and here is why. We have removed the fear of God from most of our homes in America and this has led to some surprising changes in the makeup of our country, it has changed our DNA if you will.
Because as we removed the fear of God we lost wisdom in America. We could not disciple our children with authority for the last 3 or 4 generations in the home or in the school because it was soon considered cruel.
We lost the ability to deal with small infractions and this lead to an inability to deal with even big crimes such as murder.
Punishment was eliminated on the low end when we stopped spanking children and there is no longer a deterrent on the high end because we no longer really punish the murderer for his crime as we have removed the death penalty.
Think about this for a moment, as we remove the pattern of punishment to challenge the person to change his criminal life what do we leave teachers in their toolbox to mold a child and what do we leave a police officer to face the law breaker, what have we taught the lawless person but to disrespect the law because there is little to stop his poor choices.
When these behaviors take root in a society that rejects the authority of God and the structure He meant for us to operate under, namely the family where does that leave us?
Frankly, it leaves where we find ourselves; lawless and bitter, trigger happy out of self-preservation and pointing our fingers at everyone but the ones responsible, we the people.
