Evangelist Franklin Graham belittled the gun control executive actions announced by President Barack Obama on Tuesday, saying they will not help in addressing the problem of gun violence in America.
"Mr. President, you're looking at the wrong place when it comes to the root cause of gun violence. Your executive actions will do nothing to change this horrific problem. You can take all the guns in America and put them in a pile on the Mall in Washington D.C., and those guns will stay there and will eventually rust and decay," he wrote on his Facebook page. "Not one gun will crawl out of that pile and shoot or harm anyone."
The root of the problem, according to Graham, is the evil intent of sinful people. "A human heart bent on evil will pick up any gun, load it, then pull the trigger," he said.
"The problem we have in this country is sin," he said. "We have a government that has taken God out of society. Our Founding Fathers certainly did not intend this to happen."
Graham told Obama that his executive actions will not stop the violence that is being "glorified by Hollywood."
The evangelist cannot help but shake his head at how TV networks, video game and film companies make movies and games that make using guns to kill people look cool.
"There needs to be legislation to curb this. I would propose starting with a heavy tax on the manufacturers of any film or game that graphically depicts violence. If violent films and games were taken off the shelves, I believe we would see a dramatic drop in gun violence over the next few years," he says.
Because people have turned their backs on God, violence and bloodshed have ensued. Graham then shared the Bible verse Jeremiah 17:9 to help people reflect on their actions: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"
