Our Problem Isn’t Guns or Mental Illness, It’s Godlessness

By Matt Walsh

It’s called evil.

We never want to talk about evil in this country, do we? We rarely even say the word. We’re so shallow and distracted in our thinking. Everything has to be political or psychological, easily solved through policies or laws or pharmaceuticals. But all the drugs and legislation in the world won’t change the fact that humans are sinful and angry, and sometimes they do evil things on purpose, and not for any reason other than their own sick lust for vengeance, power, and pleasure.

That’s what I saw when the video of the WDBJ shooting appeared on my newsfeed yesterday morning. I didn’t see the result of “mental illness” or the side effects of bad policies or lax regulation or weak “gun control” or anything else. I saw envy and malice. I saw a man who calculated and planned his sin, then carried it out deliberately. I saw a choice. I saw evil.

I didn’t think, “Oh, if only [fill in the blank] law had been passed, this wouldn’t have happened!” or, “Man, if only the killer had been prescribed [fill in the blank medication] this could have been avoided!” No, I thought, “if only that man …read more

Source:: The Blaze