Posted on 06/13/2016 5:25:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
I agree with everything but point four. The police are not outgunned by the scumballs.
I have a friend who is a weapons training officer for a relatively small department. He showed my one of the handful of full auto M-4’s they have. He said he doesn’t envision a time when they will ever use them, but they have them just in case.
Yesterday, my sons and two friends were comparing airsoft guns in our back yard and shooting at a trash can. The yard is too small for a battle.
Some pajama boy called the police who stopped by for a friendly chat. Since the Jammy boy mentioned that the boys had guns, one of them was carrying an AR-15.
It was a short friendly conversation that ended with some smiles. Just the way it ought to be. But, he was not outgunned by anyone.
Eliminating gun free zones and allowing national concealed carry would solve many problems. While I like Constitutional Carry, I don’t have a tremendous problem with background checks and permits, providing the cost is not astronomical.
The "better way" is to cease demanding that good citizens refrain from defending themselves. There is no 'middle ground'. There is either the right to keep and BEAR arms, or there is disarmament.
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Ask the dead in Orlando. Or Paris. Or San Bernardino. Or ...
To Everything There is a Season
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Yes, the Clinton Tweet was from November 2015, the Phoenix one was yesterday.
On September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed in this country by Islamic terrorists. None of them died from a gunshot wound. In 2013, the Tsaranev brothers killed 3 people and wounded 264 others at the Boston Marathon. They did it without using a gun. As you said, we do not have a gun problem in this country. We have a terror problem.
Don’t think so. Isn’t it LGBT, not LBGT?
Who is Michael Brown, and why is he writing for Townhall?????
Then Sunday, this happens, taking Hillary out of the news.
HOW CONVENIENT. Just a coincidence, right ?
Does anyone know what the time is?
Let’s be clear, Hillary: you can talk about peace, you can talk about healing, you can talk about ‘gun problems’ all you want.
None of that pandering and hand-wringing to pretend to the world that you care (I know you don’t) will help anything.
Your administration has been in charge for a whole spate of these attacks over the past 8 years. You didn’t even lift a finger to stop one happening on your watch to your own people.
Attacks against Americans are still happening with regularity because you haven’t actually done anything - anything - other than talk.
You don’t care to solve anything - you only mean to exploit this for your own purposes.
Get off the stage. Your audition is over.
Here is the biography of Dr Michael Brown, the author of the op-ed
Michael L. Brown is the founder and president of FIRE School of Ministry in Concord, North Carolina, Director of the Coalition of Conscience, and host of the daily, nationally, syndicated talk radio show, the Line of Fire, as well as the host of the apologetics TV show, “Answering Your Toughest Questions,” which airs on the NRB TV network. He became a believer in Jesus 1971 as a sixteen year-old, heroin-shooting, LSD-using Jewish rock drummer. Since then, he has preached throughout America and around the world, bringing a message of repentance, revival, reformation, and cultural revolution.
He holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from New York University and has served as a visiting or adjunct professor at Southern Evangelical Seminary, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary (Charlotte), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Fuller Theological Seminary, Denver Theological Seminary, the King’s Seminary, and Regent University School of Divinity, and he has contributed numerous articles to scholarly publications, including the Oxford Dictionary of Jewish Religion and the Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament.
Dr. Brown is the author of 27 books, including, Our Hands Are Stained with Blood: The Tragic Story of the “Church” and the Jewish People, which has been translated into more than twelve languages, the highly-acclaimed five-volume series, Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus, a commentary on Jeremiah (part of the revised edition of the Expositor’s Bible Commentary), and several books on revival and Jesus revolution. His newest books are Can You Be Gay and Christian: Responding With LOVE & TRUTH to Questions About HOMOSEXUALITY (2014), The Fire that Never Sleeps: Keys for Sustaining Personal Revival (2015), and Outlasting the Gay Revolution: Where Homosexual Activism is Really Going and How to Turn the Tide (2015).
Dr. Brown is a national and international speaker on themes of spiritual renewal and cultural reformation, and he has debated Jewish rabbis, agnostic professors, and gay activists on radio, TV, and college campuses. He is widely considered to be the world’s foremost Messianic Jewish apologist.
He and his wife Nancy, who is also a Jewish believer in Jesus, have been married since 1976. They have two daughters and four grandchildren.
Deport illegals!
Expel muslims!
Gee, I wonder how we would know that. They never say so. They never condemn the terrorist acts. They never take any action to reform their Imams. They cheer in the streets after a slaughter like this.
In fear for their lives? Fear from whom? Other Muslims most likely. They should be willing to die to prove their religion is peaceful. But they do not.
And don’t forget guys, it’s okay to say “mandate”. Nowadays, some people might hear it as “man date,” but then we know where their minds are at.
It’s clear to me that islam and civilization are incompatible.
Guns are not the problem, and this person invalidates their entire "carefully written" statement by such tripe. I am not going to take the rest of it seriously on the basis of that.
I am sure he is an nice guy and all, and that he has found God and Jesus, but the entirety of his article sounds more like the mindset that is going to get more of us killed. I have found that our main shortcoming as conservatives in our discourse with liberals is that we grant them their premises without questioning them, and we spend all of our time and energy arguing the finer points of their invalid premises instead of dismissing it out of hand, and this is a prime example. I reject that premise and reject the entire argument as a result.
I have said it before, people who are here and are now American citizens have to be treated as such until there is specific, individual reason not to. That is our bed and we have made it. So I will buy (from a Constitutional standpoint alone) that we can't judge all muslims on the actions of a few. That won't stop me from judging them on their actions, because that is MY Constitutional right, but I am not going to call for rounding them up.
And allowing any more of them into this country in large, unexamined blocks, as Liberals wish to do, is madness.
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