Suppose you were given the following moral option:
If you, and only you, were obliged to give up all your guns and weaponry and you were guaranteed that the right to own guns was not in jeopardy, would you give up your guns if all those who recently perished because AK-47s and other weaponry were so easily available, if the lives of all those persons could be restored if only you would give up your guns?
Which would be more valuable to you?
Your guns?
Or the lives of those people?
The Omaha killer had a rapid-fire rifle to pick off Christmas shoppers. The Colorado killer had two assault rifles, three handguns and 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
Both killers had mental issues.
And easy access to weaponry.
The Virginia Tech killer?
The same scenario.
So, please excuse me while I wonder if Americans don't love their guns more than they love human life.
And the added irony of the season, supposedly the season of the Prince of Peace, he who uttered upon the Mount:
Blessed are the PeaceMakers.
Oh, maybe I misread the text and Jesus was actually referring to the Colt Peacemaker.
Blessed are the Colt Peacemakers.
The Colt Single Action Army handgun, also known as the Colt Peacemaker or Single Action Army, is a single action revolver. It uses a revolving cylinder holding six rounds, and is also known to some as a six-shooter. However it safely holds only five rounds at a time, keeping an empty chamber directly under the hammer to prevent accidental discharge if dropped or struck. It was designed for the US cavalry by Colt's Manufacturing Company and adopted in 1873. It was one of the most famous pistols of the wild west, having a similar fame as the Walker Colt and the Colt 1851 Navy.
It is sometimes referred to as the 'Colt .45', and should not be confused with the M1911 semi-automatic Browning-design pistol, which is usually referred to as the '.45 auto'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
You know, it must be that I DID misread that text because none other than Mike Huckabee, the most incredibly self-proclaimed Christian of all those very Christian Republican presidential candidates, had this to say in a speech before the NRA on September 21, 2007:
.... I really wasn't prepared for freezing-cold, 30-degree crosswinds and several inches of snow. And we stalked antelope all morning long and never got really close to one to get a shot. And finally, at about 12:30 in the afternoon, there was one across a ridge -- I'm not making this up -- the trajectory was upward, it is across, up on a hill. And it looked pretty decent, but it was about 250 yards away. Now, that's just, on my best day, within my range, maybe. But with a stiff wind, snow -- and one of the rules of the One-Shot Antelope Hunt is that you cannot use any artificial devices; you can't lean on, you know, a car or the hood of a truck or anything other your own body. And so that kind of complicates the process and makes it a little more challenging.
But it was one of those moments where I finally decided: "You know, we only get one shot. If you miss, your hunt is over. If you hit, and you take the animal, then your hunt your is over as well." And I decided that one way or the other, this hunt is about to be over, because I can't stand any more of this cold. And somehow, by the grace of God, when I squeezed the trigger, my Weatherby .300 Mag, which has got to be the greatest gun, I think, ever made in the form of a rifle -- for my sake in hunting, I've never squeezed the trigger and not gotten something -- did its work, and somehow the angels took that bullet and went right to the antelope, and my hunt was over in a wonderful way.
http://www.nraila.org/...
Well, maybe I've got the wrong version of the Bible, according to Mike Huckabee, and it really is:
Blessed are the Colt Peacemakers.