The problem is that the guns that are turned in are not necessarily the ones that are being used for the crimes. The criminals and gang members keep their guns. But some people need money, so they dig that gun out of the back of the closet. Or they get the one that doesn't work right and isn't worth fixing and they turn them in. The point is this, people are giving things up but they aren't disarming.
This reminds me a bit of the weapon treaties signed by the US and USSR during the cold war. The first ones didn't reduce nuclear weapons at all. They just slowed down how fast we were building them. But eventually we had enough and came up with an agreement to make due with less; We each would get rid of some and come up with some way to make sure that we are both following the rules.
The key is that we would both get rid of SOME of the nukes, not all. Both sides were still going to keep enough to be able to turn the entirety of the Earth's surface into radioactive cream corn. We were willing to lay down a few, but not completely disarm.
There is a fundamental difference between reduction and completely disarming. To completely disarm you have to change the way that you look at the world. You give up some level of control and potentially turning it over to others.
The Christian walk is very much like this. We start out trying to sin not so much. Of course it doesn't feel that way, but if we are honest it is more like a limitation than a true reduction. But over time with the conviction of the Holy Spirit we begin reducing the areas of our life outside of God's will. But do we truly disarm?
To truly disarm would be to turn our lives completely over to the will of God. It would be to release ourselves from our selfish will and to surrender ourselves completely. For humans this is impossible, but all things are possible in god.
There is a difference between turning over some things and turning over all things. But that is what we are called to do.
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