The Gun Counter

Oh, the local libs are ALL over this one. Personally, I say Personal Choice and Live And Let Live. Yeah, I think it's a bit dumb, but so what? Plenty of liberal causes are dumber than this, but heaven help you if you criticize one of them.

One wanker said, "Giving tickets to strip clubs would also be a good way to recruit, but a lot less lethal." I responded that when there was a fatality resulting from this, to please be sure and let me know.

The Blessed KABOOM!

Aw, hell, my local KC Chapter is selling raffle tickets to give away 30 guns during September '14. Thirty bucks for a ticket and they're giving away a gun per day. Nice stuff, Franchi's, Benellis, Remingtons, Savages, you name it. Best part is that the tickets are limited to 1000 tickets and you can win multiple times during the month. If your number is picked, you're a winner.

It borders on hilarious that they find a pastor who can quote Jesus saying "Put away the sword", but who can't seem to recall the part where He tells the disciples to buy one. Text without a context is a pretext.

And quoting "pastor" Nancy, former head of the Kentucky Council Of Churches, which is known by most conservative mainline denominations as "Christianity for people who hate Jesus but love Marx and Lenin" on any subject, let alone this one, is particularly rich.

If they were instead having gun buy-backs, the same idiot journalists (redundancy alert!) would be slobbering all over their lobster bibs and creaming their pants fawning over such an effort, even if the churches spent $40K to get three broken nail guns and a rusted Chinese-made Red Ryder knock-off "off the streets".

Furthermore,

A) The disciples were carrying swords

B) Peter was told "Put it away", not "Get rid of it."

That Christianity is supposed to require helplessness, is a fairly novel idea, aside from a few small off-shoots, and one without any rigorous theological backing.

Aglifter wrote:Furthermore,

A) The disciples were carrying swords

B) Peter was told "Put it away", not "Get rid of it."

That Christianity is supposed to require helplessness, is a fairly novel idea, aside from a few small off-shoots, and one without any rigorous theological backing.

Which brings us full circle to this thread, no?

So the roman were cool with everyone tooling around with swords? I really should do some more research into older forms of weapons control. From what little I know so far it seems like the authorities were ok with people having swords as the required a good amount of skill and training to use properly but once firearms appeared then even an untrained peasant could get lucky and kill a noble lord on the field of battle and we couldn't be having any of that could we.

Kommander wrote:So the roman were cool with everyone tooling around with swords? I really should do some more research into older forms of weapons control. From what little I know so far it seems like the authorities were ok with people having swords as the required a good amount of skill and training to use properly but once [strike]firearms[/strike] crossbows appeared then even an untrained peasant could get lucky and kill a noble lord on the field of battle and we couldn't be having any of that could we.

FIFY

FTR,

The "swords" that were often carried concealed by the Jews of that time were not gladiuses or scimitars. They were big daggers, similiar to an "Arkansas toothpick".

PawPaw wrote:Aw, hell, my local KC Chapter is selling raffle tickets to give away 30 guns during September '14. Thirty bucks for a ticket and they're giving away a gun per day. Nice stuff, Franchi's, Benellis, Remingtons, Savages, you name it. Best part is that the tickets are limited to 1000 tickets and you can win multiple times during the month. If your number is picked, you're a winner.

I have no idea what a KC chapter is, but I like it already. Where do we sign up?

I've been debating this on FB with three Libs I knew in school. They are trying to equate this with this. Y'know, how the raffle will lead to things like the D.C. incident in the thread.