I guess you're unaware that firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens
prevent over 2.4 million crimes a year here in the U.S., that�s everything
from stealing to murder. That means guns are used 60 times more for good than
for evil. Also 92% of those 2.4 million times the gun is merely brandished. More
than 192,000 women used a firearm in 1995 to prevent being raped. Criminals also
avoid armed citizens : Kennesaw, GA. In 1982, this suburb of Atlanta passed a
law requiring heads of households to keep at least one weapon in the house. The
residential burglary rate subsequently dropped 89% in Kennesaw, compared to the
modest 10.4% drop in Georgia as a whole.
Our founding fathers, who I believe most were Christians, believed in
fighting for the right to serve and worship God even if it meant taking up arms.
Question: If the government banned the practice of Christianity would you
stand up and fight for God and even die for God or would you hide out in some
cave and let the world go strait to hell?
Travis
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 4:30
PM
Subject: Re: [RR] Bowling for
Colombine
Actually the issue is not gun control per-say.
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
- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- 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
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://eBible.org/mpj/
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