It is the kind of story we hate to report to you. Three young men have been arrested in Duncan, Oklahoma for shooting Melbourne baseball player Chris Lane. Activists on the left and the right are pointing to causes that have nothing to do with such a senseless act. It has been reported that the three teens (ages 15-17) were “bored” and killed Chris Lane for “fun”.
Let us lie in wait to shed blood;
Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
On one side people are decrying this as a racist act, even as we learn that one of the teens was white. Another side is using this tragedy as an opportunity to blame a lack of gun control. Tim Fischer, former Australia deputy prime minister, criticized the National Rifle Association and asked Australians to avoid the U.S. as a way to put pressure on its Congress to act on gun control.
Prosecutor Jason Hicks called the boys “thugs” as he described how Christopher Lane, 22, of Melbourne, was shot once in the back and died along a tree-lined road on Duncan’s well-to-do north side. He said the three teens, from the grittier part of town, chose Lane at random and that one of the boys “thinks it’s all a joke.”
My son, do not walk in the way with them,
Keep your foot from their path;
For their feet run to evil,
And they make haste to shed blood.
Hicks charged Chancey Allen Luna, 16, and James Francis Edwards Jr., 15, of Duncan, with first-degree murder. Under Oklahoma law they will be tried as adults. Michael Dewayne Jones, 17, of Duncan, was charged with using a vehicle in the discharge of a weapon and with accessory to first-degree murder after the fact. He is considered a youthful offender but will be tried in adult court.
Cast in your lot among us,
Let us all have one purse”—
If we truly want to understand such crimes we must turn to the pages of scripture. In the book of Proverbs, we are warned against giving in to the base nature of sin.
This scripture is thousands of years old, yet it reveals that such crimes are not new. America must realize that as we are moving away from the Lord and this is what brings the darkness.
My son, if sinners entice you,
Do not consent.
If they say, “Come with us,
Let us lie in wait to shed blood;
Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,
And whole, like those who go down to the Pit;
We shall find all kinds of precious possessions,
We shall fill our houses with spoil;
Cast in your lot among us,
Let us all have one purse”—
My son, do not walk in the way with them,
Keep your foot from their path;
For their feet run to evil,
And they make haste to shed blood. -Proverbs 1:10-16
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