It happened again — another mass murder. And the same questions always follow: Why did he do it? How can we stop it?

Predictably, the left reignited the gun control debate almost immediately. Just hours after the massacre, Hillary Clinton tweeted, “Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.” Really?

Then she followed this up with, “Our grief isn't enough. We can and must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to stop this from happening again.” Once again, the NRA gets blamed. Exactly how can government “stop this from happening again?”

The truth is, government cannot solve every problem. It cannot stop a 64-year-old man with no prior offenses from shooting innocent people attending a country music concert. And the idea that the government can disarm the American public is not only unconstitutional, it’s also impossible.

FOX News host Tucker Carlson said: “Something strange is going on in America. This wasn’t a feature of my childhood. This is a new thing. Something is causing it.”

But what? What is causing it?

Jesus said in Matthew 15:19, "For out of the heart come evil thoughts — murder ..."

Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”

The problem is with the heart of humankind. We don’t need another law. We don’t keep the ones we have. We need a change of heart.

Our Founding Fathers understood this problem. John Adams, the second president of the United States, said, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion … Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

In George Washington’s farewell address he said, “Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

Did you catch that? He said reason and experience forbid us to expect that national morality will work without religious principles. By contrast, secular humanists believe morality can be attained without a belief in God. Everyone has a moral compass. The question is what is guiding it? Washington recognized that religious principles are essential in order to guide people in the right moral direction.

Radio talk show host Laura Ingraham said: “Secular humanism and progressivism have supplanted the understanding that without virtue there is no freedom. Freedom without virtue is chaos.”

The connection of liberty and God is a principle that has appeared on the nameplate of The Indianapolis Star for many years: 2 Corinthians 3:17, “Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” By contrast, a country devoid of the Spirit of the Lord, will lose its liberty.

So while the families grieve their loss, politicians will once again debate gun control and demonize each other for political gain. And the government will not accomplish anything.

But Americans can do something. We can pray to the God of peace. And when you talk to him, here is some advice on how to pray.

2 Chronicles 7:14 says, “if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

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