It is the logical foundation behind the practise of christians essentially worshipping guns more than the teaching of Jesus.
There is evil and there is sin.
But we who have the Holy Spirit within should have no choice in this matter.
At 04:15 AM 24/07/2003 +1000, Kahunapule Michael P. Johnson wrote:
Gun control is an emotional and controversial issue.
You may be able to do some good with gun control. You can, however, never stop the problem by eliminating guns, and you can never eliminate guns. In PNG, guns are mostly illegal (except a few for police officers and the PNG Defence Force, and an occasional registered weapon), and yet criminals still smuggle or manufacture guns and use them in crimes there.
The idea that you can stop crime by removing all weapons is rather ignorant, since there are ALWAYS weapons of opportunity available when murder is in someone's heart. I face that extreme fear-based irrationality every time I get on a commercial airplane, now. Never in the history of the universe has anyone hijacked an airplane with tweezers, but they are forbidden to be carried on the airplane. Frankly, I believe that commercial aircraft would be safer if everyone were allowed to carry pocket knives again. Anyone attempting to hijack a plane would almost certainly bleed to death before he could complete his mass murder.
The idea that it is a Christian duty for civilians to all carry deadly weapons and be willing to use them and take the law into your own hands is another idea that I have difficulty accepting, but I've seen it practiced and taught.
At 16:23 22-07-03 -0400, Mike Burke wrote:
I think it's just the Devil doing that in which he was supposed to do before the Lord comes back. I can see this as clearly as you do. It's the Devil going down and taking as many as he can with him. The Devil is preying on the weak minded and taking advantage of it by twisting the truth around and getting everyone to believe in their own contradictions.
Am I not correct about what this really is?
Iron Mike
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: Victor Zalakos
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- Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 6:26 PM
- Subject: Re: [RR] Bowling for Colombine
- This continues to trouble me.
- Perhaps you can explain to a foreigner...
- Why is it that American Christians, will in the same breath, advocate the hoarding of guns and ammunition in the family home, yet stand back and watch as Christ is removed from every fabric of their society - and then vilify someone who stands up and asks "Why are we doing this?" ?
- Is it only folk from outside your country who can see the correlation between the massive numbers of homocides by shooting and the worship of guns?
- How can you keep a gun in a suburban home when having a gun in the home makes it nearly three times more likely that you or someone you care about will be murdered by a family member or intimate partner. (Gun Ownership as a Risk Factor for Homicide in the Home, Arthur L. Kellermann, MD, MPH; Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH; et al, The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 329, No. 15, October 7, 1993, pp. 1084-1091.)
- Are you aware that nearly 30,000 homicides were firearm related in 2000 in the USA?
- And that there were almost 120,000 non-fatal firearm assults in the same year?
- What's the deal?
Kahunapule Michael P. Johnson
Servant of Jesus Christ
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