King Solomon Sinful Silence, or “Street Smarts,” Post Three

What reason did a Supreme Court Justice make this statement. “ the plurality’s decision sacrifices the rights of law-abiding citizens to live in safe neighborhoods while guaranteeing that gang members have the constitutionally protected right to loiter freely.”

Guns, Chickens, Eggs, King Solomon, Chicago Violence, Post Eleven

How does the Chicago gun issues compare to the chicken and eggs conundrum?

Will We Ever Know the Answer?

When I read the pros and cons of arguments for or against gun control, I think about the chicken and egg conundrum. Why? Because we know bad guys have existed since the beginning of recorded history and probably will exist until the end of time. We also know there will always be a need for good guys to have a means to protect themselves from bad guys.

Even if was plausible that if a law was passed to demand everybody would  turn in the estimated three hundred million  guns now in the USA, does anyone really believe the bad guys will turn in their guns? Or if it was possible, would that really stop bad guys from obtaining guns from other countries or sources?

In other words, since bad guys use guns to commit violence and good guys use guns to protect from bad guys, which will happen first? Will bad guys ever stop being bad? Or will good guys ever stop bad guys from being bad?

Will any mere mortal  ever be capable of answering this conundrum or solving all the problems of bad guys in the world?  No is what two Ancient Wiseman concluded in their writings of the why and therefore in life, based on their ancient wisdom writings.

Why

“One thing is the words which men say, another is that which the Gods decide. If the tongue of man were the rudder of a boat, the All-Lord is its pilot.” (Amenemope, 1300 BC)

What is crooked cannot be straightened and what is lacking cannot be counted. (Ecclesiasties 1:15)

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter. (Proverb 25:2) 

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. (Proverb 3:5-6 King Solomon,  980 BC)

Therefore

Sow your seed in the morning and do not be idle in the evening, for you do not know whether morning or evening sowing will succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good. (Ecclesiastes 11:6-7)

In Other Words

We mere mortals do not have the power or means to solve all the problems of good and bad that our Creator, for His purposes has decided we must confront in life. However, we should never give up trying to make our world a better place for ourselves and our posterity.

In My Opinion, What to Do About Guns and Chicago Violence

We need to wise up and face reality. There is no one quick and simple solution and there probably will never be any one quick and effective means to ever keep guns out of the hands of the bad guys.

If we continue to pass laws and regulations about guns with exceptions to serve special interests, we are not wise, we are fools.

What we need to do in the short term is what has been done before in varying degrees since the beginning of time. That is to punish the bad guys in the short term. Instill morals teachings by example and education to everyone in the long term.  Pray for wisdom and wise leadership to be instilled in both ourselves, our leaders, to hopefully benefit our communities.

There is nothing new under the sun.  In my opinion, the Bible has recorded all the examples of good and bad guys along and provided prudent advice how to use the two greatest blessings provided by our Creator. All we need to do is take the time to learn and make use of the two greatest blessings given us as tools given us and strive to make our world a better place. Wisdom and Love.

There will never be any solution if we do not wise up and continue to believe and listen to mere mortals that believe their secular wisdom is greater than Spiritual wisdom. In future posts, I will give two examples of wise gifted men who tried to solve all of God’s mysteries and became fools.

The fool is the one who relies on his intellect, but it is a man of wise conduct who escaped harm. (Proverb 28:26),  

Regards and goodwill blogging.

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Are lack of opportunity and jobs the core reasons for the Violence Diseases plaguing our Cities and Nation?

A Chicago Tribune seasoned reporter  on February 7, 2017 wrote in a column  titled, Even for Reporters, Sad Tales Too Much to Bear, and made this statement.

“The city’s violence is a symptom of a deeper disease plaguing some neighborhoods on the South and West sides — namely a lack of jobs and opportunities in communities that once buzzed with skilled and unskilled labor.”

In My Opinion

Yes, I believe most people will agree the lack of job opportunities is a weight variable that adds to the “disease” of Chicago Violence. However, there are other “disease factors” that I believe add far greater weights to the core diagnoses of  reasons for Chicago Violence according to other articles.

If interested, read the proverbs and accompanying articles  below.

King Solomon

1.Proverb on How Work Increases a Person’s Stature and Community 

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will stand before kings; He will not stand before obscure men. (Proverb 28:29)

Chicago Tribune Sad Tales HERE

2. Proverb on How Two Parent Families Benefit Communities 

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. (Proverb 1:8)

Family Collapse HERE

3.Proverb How Elitist Leaders Seperate Americans

He who stops his ear to the cry of a poor man will himself cry out and not be answered. (Proverb, 21:13)

Two Americas  HERE

You Decide

Which diagnosis of reasons do you believe adds greater weight or severity to the causes for the violence diseases plaguing Chicago and other of our Nations Cities?

Date: 02/09/2017Author: scatterwisdom0 Comments— Edit

Are lack of opportunity and jobs the core reasons for the Violence Diseases plaguing our Cities and Nation?

A Chicago Tribune seasoned reporter  on February 7, 2017 wrote in a column  titled, Even for Reporters, Sad Tales Too Much to Bear, and made this statement.

“The city’s violence is a symptom of a deeper disease plaguing some neighborhoods on the South and West sides — namely a lack of jobs and opportunities in communities that once buzzed with skilled and unskilled labor.”

In My Opinion

Yes, I believe most people will agree the lack of job opportunities is a weight variable that adds to the “disease” of Chicago Violence. However, there are other “disease factors” that I believe add far greater weights to the core diagnoses of  reasons for Chicago Violence according to other articles.

If interested, read the proverbs and accompanying articles  below.

King Solomon

1.Proverb on How Work Increases a Person’s Stature and Community 

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will stand before kings; He will not stand before obscure men. (Proverb 28:29)

Chicago Tribune Sad Tales HERE

2. Proverb on How Two Parent Families Benefit Communities 

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. (Proverb 1:8)

Family Collapse HERE

3.Proverb How Elitist Leaders Seperate Americans

He who stops his ear to the cry of a poor man will himself cry out and not be answered. (Proverb, 21:13)

Two Americas  HERE

You Decide

Which diagnosis of reasons do you believe adds greater weight or severity to the causes for the violence diseases plaguing Chicago and other of our Nations Cities?

In My Opinion

The best prescription to cure the spread of the plague of these diseases to prevent more Violence Folly is to admister a very large dose of Wisdom every day, and twice on Sundays.ggin

Regards and goodwill blogging.

Regards and goodwill blogging.

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Should President Trump send Feds to end violence?

King Solomon  Proverbs 

31“So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way And be satiated with their own devices. 

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way (Free Will Choices),..

32 For the waywardness of the naïve will kill them. And the complacency of fools will destroy them.

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them,…. Or be the cause of their being slain; even their turning away from Christ, their aversion to him; their turning their backs on him, and a deaf ear to him; 

33“But he who listens to me (Wisdom, Practical or Spiritual) shall live securely And will be at ease from the dread of evil

But whoso hearkeneth unto me,…. To Wisdom, or Christ; to the cry and call above; to the voice of his Gospel, not only externally, but internally; so as spiritually and experimentally to understand it, 

(Proverbs 1:31-33 Gils Commentary)

What is My Point

If you discern the crime statistics in the Souses below, you can readily see that the majority of victims being killed are engaged in criminal acts.

There are also peacemakers and innocent victims which begs the next question? Is it wise for peacemakers, whether they be local police or Feds, to risk their lives to try to suppress the criminal actions of the gang wars who are killing each other? Or should they only be concerned about innocent victims?

Conundrum

Perhaps we need a conversation about Government Wisdom. For example, should peacemakers engage only seek justice for innocent victims? For example, if a person makes a free will choice decision to become a drug addict, or engages in selling drugs in another gang’s disputed territory, and the result is gang members killing each other, perhaps we need to rethink how King Solomon laws of ancient times.

Before you dismiss me as some kind of nut or fool, I urge you to read on and discern that what I just stated is the reality taking place in Chicago and Mexico. Perhaps not by government volition or choice, but by limitations of government to be totally effective to rule over free will choices and complacency of human foolish behaviors.

Chicago v Mexico City Violence

A recent news report stated there was a 22 percent rise in 2016 Murders in Mexico. If you compare violence ratios of both cities, they statistics are very similar. If you compare statistics of Chicago killings, Hispanics are second to Blacks in murder rates.

Is that why President Trump remarked that he may send Feds to both Chicago and Mexico? Perhaps we do need to have a conversation?

Conversation

There are limits of Government. If you decide to engage in criminal actions, you subject yourself to criminal punishment by both Government and revengeful retaliations by the victims gang members.

Government cannot solve all the problems caused by fools that make foolish free will choices to risk shortening their limited time on earth. For example, if you choose to smoke, whether it be cigarettes of cannabis, you are shorting your own life span. If you buy drugs from a gang, you are in effect a complacent accomplice who helps promote  gang violence and criminal actions in your communities.

Law In Ancient Times

Believe it or not, King Solomon judged mainly civil disputes. He would only judge the guilt or innocence of a murderer if someone was brought before him, and two witnesses to a murder would testify against the accused. If King Solomon judged the witness to risk lying,  they would suffer the same penalty a premediated murder. The penalty was to be hanged immediately after judgement and buried before sunset.

In a novel Excerpt, I surmised, based on proverbs, how King Solomon may have explained to the Queen of Sheba why he considered revenge by a victims family as a domestic matter and not a matter to be judged in a court. The novel is a contemporary application to promote understanding of how ancient proverbs and wisdom is still relevant in our modern world.

Novel Excerpt

“Solomon, how does allowing avengers to settle domestic matters bring about order in your community? I would surmise that the result of revenge as a remedy for family feuds that spew hatred would only serve to increase more revengeful actions.”

“Bilqis, you may be right, however, we have no way of knowing for certain. On the other hand, because we understand all domestic acts against their neighbors are subject to family revenge rather than courts, an Israelite will think twice before committing any offense against a neighbor.”

In My Opinion

President Trump should not send Feds to either Chicago or Mexico. Rather he should do what he does well. That is to speak out in a frank truthful manner who is really to blame as I suggested in Post Seven (HERE) to make use of free media public services messages time.

Why? Because sending Feds will only be a short time solution to solve the real problem that needs to be addressed. Read again the above proverbs and discern the message of Proverb 32, the word naïve can only be corrected by teaching wisdom, and the word complacency can only be corrected by all individuals who choose to make lawful and wise free will choices to help both themselves and their communities.    

Regards and goodwill blogging.

Sources

 Gils Proverb Commentary HERE

Mexico Crime Increase HERE

Victims by Race HERE

As a Lily Among Thorns – A Story of King Solomon, the Queen of Sheba and the Goddess of Wisdom HERE

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