Charlie Kirk, a man who was shot by a coward without the emotional intelligence to deal with the toxicity of an invading culture, has been mocked posthumously for a sentence he said in a discourse that included 545 words.

Just before he made the statement that some gun deaths are worth the greater good, he said, “We should have a honest and clear reductionist view of gun violence, but we should not have a utopian one.”

Being a conservative American doesn’t mean you support every policy or opinion wholeheartedly. In fact, being American means you think for yourself on every issue and come to your own conclusion. In the age of social media and unaccountability in the news, we have lost that today. Too many Americans get their information from sound bites, social media memes, and the opinions of others who use the same insignificant information to form a reasonable opinion. This has led to the emergence of a society that is fueled by hate for those who disagree and an inability to have an intelligent dialogue about a topic.

It is clear that firearm ownership in America has influenced made its mark on our traditional culture. But it is also clear that as the world changes around us, and as weapons become more efficient and effective, America’s unchanging and unbending obsession with guns has now tainted our culture.

The argument for access to weapons consists of four bullet points, as far as I can tell:

Self-protection
Hunting
Defense from Tyrannical Government
God-given rights

I easily buy into the first 2 points. If one wants to have a gun in their home for protection, then they should be allowed to have that protection. Guns for hunting, which also crossover to protection, again, allowed.

But when we start talking about defending ourselves from an out-of-control government, I get a little skeptical. Weapons are highly advanced and very powerful. To protect ourselves against a government force would require military-grade weaponry. Each home would now need a shoulder-held rocket launcher to take out fighter jets.

And that brings to light a major problem with gun policy. Individuals don’t need arsenals in their basements, or military-grade weapons, or high-powered sniper rifles. These weapons are meant for one thing—to kill other people. Furthermore, an attack by a government force would be far superior to anything found in a home, no matter how well stocked.

In our social media age, where, based on a 2028 MIT study, false information appears on your media feed 6 times faster than true information (if you ever see the true). As our ability to connect with opposing opinions in a meaningful, to learn the full scope of an argument, and to be able to discern content diminishes, it too often leaves the gun as the only solution.

This is why Charlie Kirk was killed. And if you really meditate on it, it is unimaginable that a man lost his life because of false accusations against his character, when he made his true opinions completely transparent on the social stage.

My biggest beef with our unfettered and unquenchable obsession with guns is that outside of America’s founding documents, (I’m not going to give you a rundown of the US Constitution, or the Bill of Rights, or state charters, or what our founding fathers intended. But I will give you a reference and you can do your own study, because finding our for ourselves has become a lost motivation around the world. You can participate in constitutional studies for free through Hillsdale College. That’s right—for free. https://online.hillsdale.edu/), I don’t see Jesus telling us to arm ourselves to the hilt in preparation for what’s to come.

In fact, I see Jesus saying the opposite.

Conservative America makes high claims as being in line with biblical teachings, which would lead one to assume they know the Bible. That means Conservatives are intimately familiar with the condition of the human heart—that every heart carries evil intentions in it, and every heart has the ability to pull the trigger.

If Conservatives know this, then why do we insist on giving every person the opportunity to commit heinous crimes against their fellow man when they reach that breaking point of anger, frustration, bitterness, and embarrassment?

The Christian argument concerning guns should take this into consideration, and that means some form of gun control, or restriction, is necessary. If the gun goes beyond home protection or hunting (I don’t consider shooting an elk from 400 yards away as hunting, by the way), then that gun in the hand of a man or woman is a danger to society.