Lost in the Swirl of the Gun Control Debate (as a Christian)

To read a thoughtful response to this article by Scott Fritzsche, please go
here: http://unsettledchristianity.com/lost-in-guns-and-i-dont-know-much/

Lately I have engaged in a few debates about gun control on Facebook.

It is the end of 2015 and in America many events have occurred that either make people want to enact much stricter gun control laws (or do away with the 2nd Amendment entirely) or make people be firmer advocates for gun rights among the general populace as a means of protecting our communities whenever a mass shooter situation arises. Speeches have been made and articles written by such prominent Christian leaders as Jerry Falwell Jr., John Piper, and a slew of others. (I recommend you read those articles/speeches in order to understand the context of what I am about to say).

The Walking Dead, Gun Control, and the Syrian Refugee Crisis: Linking Zombies to Current Events

To quote Zach Handlen of the A.V. Club on the kind of world zombie TV show The Walking Dead has created for itself: "At heart, The Walking Dead is really only interested in one theme: What do you have to become to survive in a world like this one? It's an issue that's come up again and again and again over the years, and the inherent limitation of that theme is the one thing, at least for me, that keeps the show from achieving true greatness"

In Handlen's estimation the show is limited in its range because there is only so much you can do with a plot where everyone is continually forced into the extremes of human behavior. I mostly agree with him and perhaps the answer to this is to set an end date for a serial television show of this kind. There is only so much explicating on the questions "Should I or should I not kill this person, and how!?" a television show can do before it becomes grievously redundant.