With malice towards none?

 

"For our Great Experiment in this country to keep on working, we need to practice having malice for none. In fact, having malice for one, is one too many. When in doubt, we all need to consult the book. Which book? The Holy Bible, which may sit dusty in the corner of the bookshelf."

"We have a bunch of sick, twisted people in our country right now, and we need to fix that", said Donald Trump yesterday when he was asked about the recent killing of Charlie Kirk. How does Trump know this? Because recently, he has had two of those "sick, twisted" people try and kill him. Unfortunately, another one of those "sick, twisted" people was able to get a lucky shot off at Charlie, killing him. What ever happened to what Abraham Lincoln said that we were to have "malice towards none"? Good question.

By the way, and just to be fair, these "sick, twisted people" are not just trying to kill our conservatives - they are all over the big cities. In Chicago for example, over the past ten years, thousands of citizens have died from gunshots from other citizens. Maybe I should be more clear - thousands in Chicago have died from other gang bangers (mostly). Is it the gun? Do we have a gun problem?

That would be a no. As much as Democrats try and assign blame to guns and law-abiding gun owners for this mayhem, they are looking in the wrong direction. As someone said yesterday on a news program, know this for what it is - it is spiritual warfare. Good vs. evil. The prince of darkness. If guns were illegal, we would still have a "sick, twisted" person stab an innocent girl to death on a subway train in New York. Why? Was he sick in the head, or did he just have malice towards everyone? 

Here's the deal folks (not to sound like Biden) - this is how it is supposed to work. As one of our founders said at the beginning, "We can swing our fist as hard and wide, as we choose - until it touches somebody else's nose. That is where our freedom ends." Meaning - if you don't like Donald Trump, don't vote for him. You have no right to shoot him. If you didn't like Charlie Kirk, don't go to his events. You had no right to shoot him. Our First Amendment gives us the God given right to free speech. No matter how much you might disagree with what somebody says or writes, free speech is protected by our Constitution. Period. Full stop.

For our Great Experiment in this country to keep on working, we need to practice having malice towards none. In fact, having malice for one, is one too many. When in doubt, we all need to consult the book. Which book? The Holy Bible, which may sit dusty in the corner of the bookshelf. Our founders consulted the Bible quite a bit when they first set things up. Maybe we need to do the same to keep this great country going.