Uvalde and the Problem of Evil

Evil is inherit in human nature; “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9). No one controls evil. We simply restrain our behaviors according to built-in belief systems or by Christian conversion. Our minds are constantly attacked by thoughts we wouldn’t dare utter to our closest loved ones. A person who had little or no restraint imposed on him/her from early childhood to maturity is a savage unleashed on society. A Godless monster whose deeds we read about far too often.

Occam’s Razor teaches us to rule out the simplest and most common explanation for phenomena before going to the complex and uncommon and in the cases of the shooters of Uvalde and Buffalo—and for that matter, the case of Joe Biden himself— are more easily explained by MENTAL ILLNESS than by EVIL.

This article merely states what we have all known for years. Take away guns and evil people will find different ways to complete their evil task. The only way to stop bad people with guns is for good people with guns to remove them. California has over 700 people on their death row and each one of them is safer from being killed than innocent children in our schools.

2, Evil is the easiest answer to the world's many problems. Is Putin mentally ill? Likely not. Evil? No question about it. Are Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff mentally ill? No. Evil? Little doubt there as well. If one is willing to define 'mental illness' in terms of the exhibition of behaviors that are far outside of the norms of society then the shooter is 'mentally ill'. But if you define it as a pathological condition that is quantifiable by testing - then nobody will ever have a definitive answer to that question. Ie., it is more demonstrative that the bad things in the world are done by sane people who are angry and destructive and whose intent is exactly what they mean to do - destroy and kill. When someone does something and they KNOW what they are doing (I am going to shoot up a school...) then they are aware of their actions (sane) and therefore, whether we like it or not, are displaying traits of hatred and anger (just two forms of evil) and not mental illness. If the shooter thought he was shooting at alien life forms that had taken over the bodies of his victims then I will go with mental illness. If he took aim on innocents, and knew fully well that was what he was doing, then the only rational explanation is that he was evil.

How many firearms are in people's homes right now, doing nothing to harm anyone? Heck, even in Uvalde? Yet, Democrats want to blame law abiding gun owners when in the City of Chicago they stated 30-ish illegal guns were confiscated over the Memorial Weekend. They weren't legal guns. And, yet, again, it's the legal gun owners who are to be blamed for the violence.

I would look to dark sites on the Internet, both foreign and domestic, for pumping many forms of evil and propaganda, designed to destabilize the cultural norms of the country, into small towns all over America. As before the Internet became available to everyone, especially including impressionable adolescents who are perpetrating the school shootings, the evils of today were generally unknown, or were very rare through small town America.

I think what trips people up so much is believing that all people are good inside. They have forgotten about Original Sin. They have been conned into thinking that its all just a matter of economic/social "equity" and not that people are self-serving to start with. Do I believe that humans are capable of good? Yes, but it is not something that just happens. One has to WORK and FOCUS to be "good." Otherwise, the natural instinct is for self-preservation. it is culture and spiritual belief and familial nurturing that brings about a human that functions not just for themselves but as part of a greater whole. It is not "either/or" it is both nature AND nurture...but if not guided by those older and wiser and more practiced in "good" then a "natural" human being will always be a two year old: struggling to become a separate human being and having no constraints on emotions or socialization. Thing is there is this horrible blind spot people have against the idea that we are not "basically good" in nature. They seem to think that to acknowledge the basic two year old self serving undisciplined is where we all start from and learn to control and work against is to say no one can ever be good...and its not true. But its understanding the "darkness" or that shadow that you CAN get control. Im so tired of our values and culture STILL being ruled by hippie nonsense. When will the adults return?