The Second Amendment: Why banning punitive parenting is a good alternative to massive gun control legislation

Many people think that gun control will reduce incidents of gun violence in the United States. This is a common argument from those on the political left. I myself, as a child advocate, work alongside the left, but do not identify with the left as a children's rights advocate. I support the Constitution, including the Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights.

There are about 300,000,000 guns in the United States, according to GunPolicy.org, with some estimates numbering more guns than people in the United States. Almost no other country has this unique problem, but where countries have passed gun control legislation while having a similar gun culture to the United States, guns simply went underground. 

In Russia, they have the same gun culture as the United States, but there, massive gun control measures were passed in 2016. Only then, guns went underground. That is likely what is going to happen in the United States if we pass massive gun control legislation.

What is the key to ending gun violence? What is the key to purging society of all violent attitudes? Banning all punishment of children, including corporal punishment, in the United States. In the United Kingdom, guns have been banned for a long time. However, violent crime still persists, in the form of knife fights or even mass stabbings. This is because the UK has not yet banned corporal punishment nationally, with only Scotland and Wales passing unpopular laws against punishing children physically or otherwise.

However, Iceland also passed massive gun control legislation, but also banned all corporal punishment of children in 2003. Dating back to the late 1970s-early 1980s, punitive parenting was long considered socially unacceptable in Iceland's history. There are actually years in Iceland where there are no murders, at all. The most common cause of violence in Iceland today is alcohol, meaning the rare murders that occur in Iceland are due to drunken brawls at bars or outside bars. Most violent crime has gone the wayside thanks to the fact that violence isn't being modeled in Icelandic parenting methods.

God's Law is above the law of the land, and thus punishment, including corporal punishment, is already banned in the United States. See Colossians 3:21 KJV:

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to damages or abuse, including child abuse in this context. Child abuse, as defined under biblical law, at minimum, is the slightest of personal offense perceived by the child, including, but not limited to, the slightest of offensive touch or speech perceived by the child, coming from entitlement. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul, and was understood in the context it was given to, as prohibiting all punitive parenting, including any punishment or control in parenting. Patrias potestas translates to "power to the father" or else "power to the parent", and refers to a Greco-Roman legal defense that allowed for fathers to police their homes as they saw fit. No analogous law existed under Jewish law, including Christian ordinance. Punitive parents, in the Old Testament, were put to death by bloodletting for kidnapping, with kidnapping being defined as any damages that resulted from hostage taking - punishing your child was likened by the Law to taking your child hostage over something they did wrong. The false and abusive teaching of "biblical spanking" does not come from the Bible, but from the Roman Catholic Church absorbing Greco-Roman parenting values, and using them to pander to European cultures that beat and whipped their children into submission as a means to keep them down. The original Law had no concept of parents punishing children except with adult children, and only after a conviction in a criminal court of law.

The evidence is clear that gun control legislation does not work, and simply drives the problem underground. What will work is strong anti-spanking legislation that both bans corporal punishment and criminalizes it. Until then, we will repeat this cycle of mass shooting after mass shooting, and then we will devolve to mass stabbings once we ban guns - and then we'll consider regulating knives. Gun control laws are reactionary laws that ultimately are a slippery slope to banning everything that could kill someone. Why not just ban beach water or swimming pools while we are at it, as a person can drown in 3 feet of water? We can't ban all ways of committing a murder. We can ban the parenting that leads to a murderer being raised, however. Then, we can have our cake and eat it too - we will have a generation of gun owners raised without violence being modeled to them, thus the most responsible generation of gun owners ever. And, we would need no massive gun ban to make gun owners more responsible. 

Let the depraved and entitled parents who provoke their children to anger and discourage them BURN in everlasting Hell and torment, suffering God's Wrath forever and ever! Repent!