Quote of the Day
If anti-gun lawmakers can continue to chip away at gun ownership, in any small, even meaningless, way, they feel vindicated in their efforts at disarming honest Americans.
Doug Howlett
March 5, 2024
Fixing What Ain’t Broke: Hawaii Seeks to Ban .50-Caliber Guns – The Truth About Guns
It’s not about public safety. And it never has been. For probably most people it is about the feelings. But it has also been about the safety of criminals. This includes the common everyday criminals as well as the government thugs and tyrants.
Image via Rolf.
And the facts to be faced is there is no bottom. They don’t care the wreckage or ignorance left in their wake. How many dead or suffering.
And if a criminal ever did illegally use a 50 BMG to commit a crime from 1.5 miles away. They would add a new law that criminalizes crime from a distance.
One no longer need ask how crazy it will get. One only has to realize it’s going to be unlivable as soon as they can make it that way.
Joe, it comes to mind your posting about blackholes?
I’m thinking communists could be a human/mental/ignorant example of one. Everything gets sucked in and crushed to death by them.
First, once again the Conservative Atheist is ignored in the assumption that all conservatives are Bible-thumping Evangelical Christians. (Yea, I get it, a LOT of conservatives are that … but nowhere near all.)
Second — and not intending to start a theological argument here — it’s one thing to trust God with your eternal existence beyond this Earth. It’s quite another to blindly trust Him with your survival and well-being here — to the extent that you refuse to provide or protect yourself or your family — when Scriptural examples abound in which the subtext (if not the overt text) is that we should be looking after ourselves. Be thankful to Him for what you have, for sure, but understand He offers opportunities, not guaranteed outcomes; what you make of the opportunities is largely up to you.
Nowhere in the Bible does it demand pacifism. The classic example is, “Turn the other cheek,” which I’d argue is fine in the given context of someone slapping you (which generally does not cause serious injury — it’s more of an insult than anything else); IMO, the admonition is primarily to keep your ego in check. OTOH, someone stabbing or shooting at you with the intent to incapacitate or kill you is an entirely different context in which “Turn the other cheek” no longer applies.
So yes, conservative Christians DO trust God to provide opportunities and access to the necessary tools and knowledge, whereas they DON’T trust Democrats to leave them alone or let them keep (let alone enjoy) any of it.
And so conservatives — including the Christians/evangelicals — buy guns, because the ability to own effective arms is the opportunity (not guaranteed outcome) to defend one’s life, family, home, community, and livelihood from those who would defy God and take any/all of them.
Just my $0.02. YMMV.
“Just my $0.02.”
And exactly/well said as it gets!
In order for God to be just he gives everyone a measure of free-will. Apparently to see what we will do with it? Good or evil, and the measure of both.
Sorry to the rest but asking Jesus to drive you home from the bar because you drank to much is just ignorant.
And totally ignores the curse were under.
“By the sweat of your brow, you will eat the fruit of the earth”~ God.
Anyone stupid enough to think they ain’t going to have to defend that fruit also?
Anyway, your spot on, bro!
It’s the ‘death by a thousand cuts’ strategy. And it works.