Soap Box

I had started an article for publication that I planned to finish this morning.

But�

We are on our way to Nashville from Sioux City, Iowa where we played last night and when I got up this morning, Dean, our bus driver, told me about the slaughter in Las Vegas.

I immediately turned on the television and started trying to catch up with the current state of affairs, and as I continue to watch the news it just gets worse and worse, the casualty lists growing and very few answers about cause and motive.

ISIS is claiming credit for the attack, but at this time there is no underpinning for their claim, and we all know ISIS would like nothing better than for us to think they had their tentacles deep enough in American society to cause a tragedy like this.

I know I�m rambling, and don�t really have much concrete information to write about this morning, but wanted to share this moment with my American brothers and sisters and encourage you all that we will get through this horrible event.

As the facts are revealed in the weeks to come there will be lessons to be learned.

One thing that occurred to me is that someone must have converted the guns the killer used from semi-automatic to full automatic, whether he had the expertise to do it himself is not known at this time.

So, this trail could possibly lead in a lot of directions.

He supposedly had 10 guns in the room, and ABC is now reporting as many as 19 including rifles and handguns in the room, and it would have probably have taken multiple trips to move in that many guns and the amount of ammunition it took for him to fire that many rounds.

As the smoke begins to clear, I�m sure there will be those who will want to place the blame in a way that will fit some political or social aspiration they espouse, but make no mistake about it, this is pure, premeditated satanic evil inspired by the darkest instincts of mankind and carried out for reasons we may never truly know.

Whatever the reason, we must hope and pray that this is an anomaly, a single act of terrorism carried out by a person of deranged or demon possessed mind, a person who is actually weak and cowardly who - although he could sit and rain death down on unprotected innocent people - could not even face the bullets that would have ended his own life, and took it a by his own hand.

How are horrors like this one prevented? His own brother said that he was surprised and overwhelmed at his brother�s killing spree, and that he had never shown any signs indicating that his calm and normal facade hid a mass murderer.

It is truly a mystery, one that we can only hope that the answers will be forthcoming for.

In the meantime, would you please join me in offering prayers for the wounded and the families of the dead?

What do you think?

Pray for our troops, our police and for the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

� Charlie Daniels

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