Quote of the Day
Gun control doesn’t stop bad guys. It’s a magnet for criminals.
Erich Pratt
Senior Vice President
Gun Owners of America
September 9, 2025
I really admire the ability to succinctly express powerful ideas.
The View From North Central Idaho
Ramblings on explosives, guns, politics, and sex by a redneck Idaho farm boy who became a software engineer living near Seattle.
Isaiah’s prophesy of true peace is about the literal millenial reign of the Messiah in Jerusalem on David’s throne after the 2nd coming; where “every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord”. Whether you believe it or not, however and whenever it happens, there will be no ambiguity; everyone will get their theology corrected. So untill then stay armed to the teeth because we live in a fallen and corrupt world where meeting violence with greater violence is often the only solution.
Just about Jesus’ last command to his apostles before his arrest.
Luke 22:36 – He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Absolutely spot on. Thank you.
That’s Jesus telling us, It’s is better to be cold and hungry than un-armed.
Also, The first part was him telling them how he had protected them.
But now your going to have to defend yourself.
As the meme said. “In God We Trust.” (The guns are just back-up.)
“They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks» (Is 2:4).”
Matthew 10:34, Where Jesus said.
“I did not come to bring peace, but a sword,”
In the parable of wheat and weeds, Jesus told us also;
“The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.
When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.
“The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’
“‘An enemy did this,’ he replied.
“The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
“‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them.
Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’”
Some people are just weeds. And It’s always going to be a constant battle for root-space down here. No way around it.
And that’s why Ben Franklin said;
“Those that beat their swords into plow shears, will end up plowing for those who didn’t.”
I’m thinking the pope needs to do a little more reading?
Stay out of crowds, and never be unarmed. Oh, and never let n—–ers, I mean, weeds, sit behind you.
The Pope has done plenty of reading. He’s interpreting the Holy Writ of Everytown, the Catechism of Ceasefire Illinois, and the Doctrines of the Archbishops of Brady.
What? You thought he’d follow the Bible when it comes to small arms and self-defense?
Your right, greivous error on my part.
I’m just glad he’s praying to the virgin Mary. Although it could be satan for all we know.
The last one was sure working for the dark side.
Personally, I’ve never understood the Catholic fascination with the Virgin Mary. Yes, she was chosen. Yes, she was pure. Yes, she deserves to be honored.
But worshiped? On her own, not simply as part of the story, as important a part as it is?
It’s not just her, either; it’s any of the saints. They were great and important people and deserve to be honored and respected, for sure. But worshiped in their own right? By people whose literal First Commandment is, “I am the Lord, your God; you shall worship no others before Me”?
I just don’t understand it. But then, I’m not Catholic.
When Catholics pray to a saint, it’s always in the form of “please ask God for a little help my way”.
We pray to the triune God directly. We ask the saints to be reinforcements.
Jesus told us to “nag” God about the things we want in the parable of the “unjust judge and the widow woman.”
I always consider that as Jesus playing a joke on God.
Just nag him till he gives you what want. He’ll give it to you just so you shut up and go away.
But I can’t help but think that might be why Jesus got scourged and nailed to a cross also? (Among many other reasons.)
We have the holy spirit in us now. God knows all we need and when we need it.
All you have to do is ask. God hears us the first time.
No need to nag. Or enlist others to do the same.
If God is real to you? Make him that way in your actions.
“Succinctly” is the right word. I’ve seen Alan Gottlieb on shows like this, and though he tries to say his piece, he doesn’t do it quickly enough and ends up getting talked over before he makes his points.
Erich Pratt just gave a master class in coherently stringing together several pro-gun talking points — quoted the Bible, “more guns, less crime,” hammers kill more than AR-15s, and how violence is an “evil” problem and not a “gun” problem — keeping them on-topic and relevant, and got them all in in under 50 seconds.
It does help that it was Newsmax and the other guest was from Breitbart (judging on his hat), so he’s less likely to be interrupted than if he were on, say, CNN or MSNBC. But even still, so many points in so short a time. Brilliantly done!
You have to speak to those who wish to rob you or kill you in the language they understand. Nothing says, “Please don’t rape me” like two slugs from a .38.
If we are to listen to our “betters”, we should all be debeaked so not as much damage is done to their stock of . . . chickens, and when a cock comes around, just lie back and think of – – England?
I’ve made the analogy before:
Gun control is like this: Feral dogs are roaming the area, attacking and mauling neighborhood cats. The Leftist solution is to declaw the cats, “for their own safety,” of course.
(Or more correctly, mandate the declawing and require the owners to do it.)
The correct solution is to catch and euthanize the feral dogs, thereby helping ensure the safety of everyone, not just the cats. But that’s dangerous work and requires real effort. Declawing the cats — whose homes and locations are known — is easy. Passing an ordinance mandating the cats be declawed (requiring someone else do the actual work) is even easier. So that’s what the Left does.
Simple solutions for simple minds.