If there is a God, why is there evil?

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... simplify your perspective... (will I ever get used to this site not having an edit option, haha)
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Earthellism answers the evil in the Uvalde school massacre. First be grateful the human devil who killed 19 children and 2 teachers is dead and will die a million deaths for each drop of innocent blood he spilled and never be forgiven in Earth's eternity and Universal eternity. God is not here to stop this human devil because God is in Heaven. Only God's love is here to comfort us for our journey on earthell. This great evil in Texas started very innocently when the shooter was born as a sweet and innocent baby. Somewhere he chose not to believe in God and a Hell and that everyone has a soul.
When he turned 18 the NRA protected him so he could buy a destructive device called a AR-15 assault semi-automatic machine gun. One has to be over 21 to buy a handgun or rifle but the NRA protected his rights to buy a destructive device at 18. As this human devil enjoyed killing children he was finally killed by police just like the Buffalo shooter should have been killed by police and hopefully will get the death penalty. 21 innocent children and teachers died to finally kill this human devil. just like the 27 who died to kill Adam Lanza of Sandy Hook. These children and teachers are all heroes for absorbing the hell-fire from these 2 human devils who craved innocent blood before they died. They did not die in vain but took a bullet for all of us.
God is not here to stop this but his love is here to help us stop the cancer that causes these massacres. Destructive devices like machine guns are banned but a giant loophole helped by the NRA has allowed assault semi-automatic machine guns to still be purchased by teenagers. The NRA (which should stand for Nuts Ruining America) is a cancer that allows these massacres because they blame everything on mental illness. The NRA is the mental illness we must deal with. Those who take a dollar from the NRA have blood on their hands and should be voted out of office this year.
That will help stop these massacres. The USA does not need the NRA and everyone can own a handgun or rifle based on the second Amendment but no needs a AR-15 machine gun unless they want to kill dozens of people quickly which is its only purpose.
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As we all cry for all the children executed by AR15 machine guns in schools and all the teenagers executed also by AR 15 machine guns, lets hope our police can find a way to quicker way to overpower a machine gun with their handguns.
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The solution is childishly simple: America must ban private gun ownership if it ever seeks to emulate the levels of gun crime in other (civilised) countries.
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Darshan wrote: May 26th, 2022, 1:50 am As we all cry for all the children executed by AR15 machine guns in schools and all the teenagers executed also by AR 15 machine guns, lets hope our police can find a way to quicker way to overpower a machine gun with their handguns.
Well, I get you're trying to make a point but calling a semi auto rifle a "machine gun" just succeeds in making folks familiar with the topic assume that since you are inaccurate in one aspect of the issue, that rest of your commentary is also substandard (even if it isn't).
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Many trauma doctors have commented that the point blank shooting by a assault semi-automatic rifle causes massive tissue destruction and loss of ones face and limbs and body parts. DNA and not dental records are required to identify what is left when a small child is annihilated by many high velocity high caliber bullets. These are the equivalent to war time injuries from a fully automatic machine gun. That is the imagery we cannot get out of our heads at this time. As the NRA celebrates in Houston, there will be no open caskets for 19 children at their funerals.
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Darshan wrote: May 27th, 2022, 7:40 am Many trauma doctors have commented that the point blank shooting by a assault semi-automatic rifle causes massive tissue destruction and loss of ones face and limbs and body parts. DNA and not dental records are required to identify what is left when a small child is annihilated by many high velocity high caliber bullets. These are the equivalent to war time injuries from a fully automatic machine gun. That is the imagery we cannot get out of our heads at this time. As the NRA celebrates in Houston, there will be no open caskets for 19 children at their funerals.
Not arguing those points, but you understand what I posted, right?
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Pattern-chaser wrote: May 26th, 2022, 12:36 pm The solution is childishly simple: America must ban private gun ownership if it ever seeks to emulate the levels of gun crime in other (civilised) countries.

Police are impotent against the second amendment, and failed to act to save the children on the day.
Worst still they punished the parents.


Uvalde school Parents cuffed, peppered, and tazered.

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Right
Have contacted Sandy Hook Promise Foundation via donations to beg them to release the full coroner’s report and morgue/autopsy pictures of the children’s bodies completely destroyed by a close range assault semi-automatic rifle. This can prove the point that those weapons are destructive devices like a fully automatic machine gun. This strategy was successful against the KKK in the church bombing that killed 3 little girls and turned the tide against the KKK in Mississippi.
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It's hard to imagine anything turning the tide against guns in the US. I think someone could mow down an entire school of hundreds of kids with an AK-47 and the Republicans would still block any legislation limiting gun laws. I do not think there is any possible circumstance that could change their minds. But no one dare harm a single foetus!
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Until it's understood that The Constitution was written to reflect the assumed requirements at that point in time to establish and defend a nation; that time itself negates all human endeavor as fixed and sacred; that no tablets ever came down from Mt. Sinai declaring god's laws, nothing will change in the U.S. Time has transformed The Constitution into the very instrument to destroy what it once created.
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Earthellism answers that the current leadership of the NRA is evil and corrupt. Those politicians who willing take NRA money become corrupt. The Sandy Hook Foundation is good and responsible and can be the balancing force against the evil NRA. Most gun owners are not members of the NRA and all our kids and grandkids are the next target.
Thé NRA made a deal with the Devil and voters can stop this cancer on America and our children.
The Devil is here and wins when we let one human devil like the shooter destroy so many families and eventually the USA.
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Sy Borg wrote: May 29th, 2022, 8:29 pm It's hard to imagine anything turning the tide against guns in the US. I think someone could mow down an entire school of hundreds of kids with an AK-47 and the Republicans would still block any legislation limiting gun laws. I do not think there is any possible circumstance that could change their minds. But no one dare harm a single foetus!
Sadly I agree with you. America has invaded around fifty countries since WW2.
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EricPH wrote: May 30th, 2022, 1:28 am
Sy Borg wrote: May 29th, 2022, 8:29 pm It's hard to imagine anything turning the tide against guns in the US. I think someone could mow down an entire school of hundreds of kids with an AK-47 and the Republicans would still block any legislation limiting gun laws. I do not think there is any possible circumstance that could change their minds. But no one dare harm a single foetus!
Sadly I agree with you. America has invaded around fifty countries since WW2.
Yet, even with all the carnage, the global population has tripled to around eight billion people. This imbalance is causing a building tension between human capabilities and resilience and powerful, antagonistic forces, both social and environmental. In a practical sense these are "interesting times", although they are statistically amongst the best of times, albeit assessed by the kind of economists who figure that if one's head is in the freezer and one's feet are in the oven, then all must be fine.

To be fair, I think any modern time is preferable to life before general anaesthesia for surgery was developed in the 1800s!
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