Dear Editor: Homicide, mayhem and mass shootings by gun violence have become our national drink. When these events occur, we pour out like a recurring decimal with condemnation, outcry and hypocritical statements of pain and sorrow. We pretend that our hearts ‘bleed’ for the relatives of victims of this systemic violence. We buttress this posture with protest marches against gun violence, candle vigils for the deceased, moving burial resolutions and eulogies of sympathy. Thereafter, like demented patients we forget our sorrows and carry on with business as usual.

Then come another month with even greater violence and fatalities; our dementia worsens and we become apathetic and begin to regard this situation as a national normative.

Why can’t this reckless violence stop? The reason is found in the Scriptures, Book of Daniel, Chapter 6. Our well-intentioned Second Amendment has become like the inhumane and irrevocable law of the Medes and Persians which serve a pagan god, alias gun rights, which can’t be amended.

We study Scripture and history so as to guide us against the mistakes of the past. The Second Amendment like all human laws is not perfect.

How can the U.S. with its avowed championship for life and freedom not let this law be reviewed to protect us better?

Countless families have been anguished by these recurrent killings and like the biblical Rachel, have become inconsolable. The nation’s policy makers must remember that those who live by the sword must perish by the sword. This bloodletting is sinful and has dire consequences.

If we won’t relent our love for guns, if we continue to value guns over life, the pogrom will continue and when the gun barrels are saturated with blood, they will explode in our faces. We shall realize only too late then that peace does not flow from the barrel of a gun.

VICTOR C. ENEMUO
Elmont