On June 4, 2016, the Orlando shooter bought a SIG MCX rifle. It’s manufacturer, Sig Sauer, designed it for use by America’s special forces. Bookmark what I’m about to say. It ties in with what is to come in this blog: Sig Sauer is an NRA corporate donor and sponsor of the NRA News series “Defending Our America.”
Eight days later after purchase, the shooter used this semi-automatic weapon of war to erase 49 innocent lives off the face of the earth and wound 53 more. The shooter should have never had access to it in the first place. It was designed for America’s special forces. In the hands of the disturb it is not going to be used to, “defend America,” but to kill Americans…and THAT is the problem, America.
I understand the frustration we all feel in the surreal, painful, senseless, and unacceptable loss of 50 more precious lives, but as a kingdom kid and His royal daughter, you have got to know that I’m not feeling this push back against prayer. Prayer is not the problem. Want to know our problems? I’m not beholden to either political party, so I call it as it is and without bias. Let me name the obstacles that have allowed for innocent lives to continue to be taken, and you do the math.
Here’s a short list, loves:
* The Supreme Court
* The Citizens United decision
* Super PACs and their lobbyists
* Congress, specifically, our
* Republican controlled Congress, and
* the Dems who vote with them, owned and aligned with the
* NRA, who receives Sig Sauer corporate donations, the
* NRA, who owns a majority of Congress,
the * NRA–and did I mention,
the * NRA?!!
More to pray for, against and about:
* The removal of the Republicans (and some Dems) in Congress who are essentially and consistently bribed by NRA with the millions they spend on their election campaigns. These are the ones who refuse to pass even the most compromising bill for improved gun control.
* The end to special interest bullies like the NRA that have the ability to buy our elected leaders in the first place.
* The demise of the NRA, Monsanto and other powerful corporate monster special interest groups and their lobbyists who actually DRAFT the legislation that is often passed to protect not us, but their profits. And this at tremendous harm to us as citizens and consumers.
* An overturn of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United. This is the more recent and sad reality that allows for and essentially created these Super PACs (political action committees) that buy our elected leaders’ voices through removing the limits to what they can, “donate”.
* A subsequent end to the power (that Super PACs yield through the millions they spend on Congressional election campaigns) that corrupts these politicians, rendering those who benefit from them self-serving and useless to their constituents.
* A reversal of the sad truth that the democratic process is now sold to the highest bidder.
* An end to these reigns of terror: House Speaker Ryan, Senate Majority Leader McConnell, and their fellow Constitution-defying obstructionists. Under McConnell, the Senate’s refusal to move forward with President Obama’s surprisingly moderate choice for SCOTUS justice nominee Judge Merrick B. Garland continues to leave the late Justice Scalia’s seat unfilled.
The Constitution is not theirs to rewrite. A sitting President’s SCOTUS nominee should have long since had a timely hearing before the Senate.
Why is filling this SCOTUS vacancy so important? The Supreme Court’s decision in Citizen’s United is what gave the power the NRA the financial power it wields over Congress today in their failure to act to protect us from the weapons used in these endless massacres! To fill it with a moderate is critical for all of the cases to be decided that will continue to impact our lives in the way the Citizen’s United decision directly led to the corruption that now allows for the killing of our children and citizens to go unanswered by Congress.
So, my response to those who are tired of praying is this: Let’s remove the obstacles!
Don’t stop praying, just get more specific! Do not be discouraged. G-d is neither deaf nor blind to our cries, nor to the innocent voices crying out from this blood-soaked land! Do not grow weary in well-doing, loves. PRAY MORE!
Pray G-d intervenes with the above lists. Pray over them, item by item.
Pray G-d removes every Congressional obstacle to passing the legislature we need to tighten the screening process for acquiring guns, to close loopholes, to address a myriad of related issues and cause these laws to be uniform in all 50 states.
Pray G-d moves so we can get military style automatic weapons of warfare off our streets. Magazines? Semi-automatics? These are the kill toys that are consistently used in these massacres. There’s no need for ordinary citizens to be so heavily armed except to take lives!
Pray G-d opens the eyes of those who manipulate the 2nd Amendment and misuse it to block legislation that would put protections in place that make it more difficult for the disturbed or the lawless to continue these kill sprees.
Pray He hushes the nonsense cries that we’re trying to take away guns from law-abiding citizens.
That’s just for starters. Don’t mind the push back; folk don’t know who we serve! They’re tired of us praying? Ok. That might just be our wake up call to pray MORE SPECIFICALLY and narrow our focus where our prayers will have the most impact.
Don’t just pray for peace in America, fam. G-d loves when we ask for exactly what we want, especially when it’s not for self, but for the greater good. So, GO BELIEVERS!!! PRAY!!! PRAY MORE!!
And let’s be honest. Just as it’s futile to pray for peace in your home instead of focusing on the problem when you know that it is in fact your teenage daughters who are causing daily outbreaks of war, I encourage you to focus your prayers and pray specifically against every known evil and obstacle TO our peace in America.
(I could add presidential candidates to this list, but that’s a given, right?!!)
I want to encourage you that while this is all very temporary; that even so, He expects us to occupy and finish the good that He started until He comes. We are here to speak the truth in love, and…love is still the most powerful weapon we have. Let’s love more, stop the hate and SPECIFICALLY pray, pray, PRAY!
I speak His perfect shalom over you all, and I love you!
Kena Drumgo 