WHEN WILL THIS MADNESS END?
June 26, 2015 | By KNews | Filed Under Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom, Source
What can someone do to you that would force you to open fire with a semi-automatic weapon on them while that person is sleeping in his bed with his wife and baby son? What can someone do to you that would force you to take action that would harm an innocent child?
Right now a toddler is nursing six gunshot wounds. He is in hospital. He is being described, and rightly so, as a “miracle baby”. He has to be a miracle baby.
Many an adult can’t take off one bullet much less six and live. This baby is being protected by a heavenly power. If you ever had any doubts as to whether there is a God, you should not have those doubts after the miracle that has saved the life of that child.
All Guyana should bow down and pray for the full recovery of the “miracle baby”. The name of that baby should be changed immediately to Miracle, but it had to take a miracle for that baby to live.
Through this baby, God is sending a message to the Guyanese people. God is saying to us that we must bring an end to this willful violence that is taking over the country. The violence has to stop. God is ordering us to stop the violence. He is doing so though a miracle, by showing us that not even the rage of the gunmen can take the life of a child who is protected by God.
More police patrols cannot solve the problem. The police have a terrible track record when it comes to maintaining vehicles. They have never been short of vehicles; they have been short of maintenance skills. You take vehicles designated for community policing groups and you give it to the police and within months, those vehicles are going to be in the workshop.
If you ask the Guyana Police Force how many vehicles they received over the past ten years, it will show how bad things are with the maintenance of assets. It might take a miracle too, to fix that problem.
But back to the real miracle, the miracle baby. God is sending a message to us Guyanese. He is opening our eyes by saving the life of this baby. He is asking us to consider the senselessness of the violence in our society; that we would put a baby in harm’s way just to get even with someone else.
Fifteen years from now when that baby grows older and begins to question the meaning of life, he would have to ask himself why his life was spared by God. And the reason has to be that his life was spared so that people in this country could see the horror of the violence that is taking place.
What is the cause of this violence? Is it that people have become crazily violent? Or is it greed and the lust for money that is pushing people into certain activities where they run afoul of not only the law, but also their friends and associates who they are then forced to turn their guns on?
Unfortunately, abolishing private property has never stopped crime. But is it worth considering that crime rates are low in countries where there is greater social control, and in which private property is discouraged. That is an indisputable fact.
But even if greed cannot be outlawed, there still remains the question: What could a person do to you in this life that would force you to want to kill him? What sort of human being would shoot at a target on a bed knowing that a baby is there and can be injured?
I do not know the answer to that, but what I do know is that person must believe that he or she has a good chance of not being caught by the law enforcement authorities, and therefore risks carrying out such a savage crime.
So perhaps the problem is not more patrols, but better intelligence gathering, so that those with the guns can be caught. Then and only then will this madness stop.
