Parapets!

Cemetery in Gloucester by Edward Hopper

When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if anyone should fall from it.

 Deuteronomy 22:8

I don't know about you, but I am tired of hearing our government officials say they are offering their prayers and support after each mass shooting! I am not going to doubt the sincerity of their prayers, but I think they should keep their prayers private and work on making parapets!  They have the power to bring about stricter gun legislation to protect the country. But instead, they utter overarching sentiments about their prayers and "forever" support, sermonize about evil and "hearts without God". We don't need our government to philosophize about the origin of evil or look into the hearts of men, or even pray for us, but to first of all govern and govern with integrity and not act like demagogues and pander to powerful lobbyists. We need them to make and enforce laws to keep us safe, lest we be harmed (killed) by their cowardly inaction or desperate hold to power.

For the guilt of blood are upon those who fail to make parapets!