Posted on 01/07/2015 11:29:36 AM PST by Teófilo
Brethren, Peace be with you.
Today's Islamofascist terrorist attack in Paris, France must remind us that vigilance for the defense of liberty is no vice, but a virtue. However, the virtue will soon be under attack, not only by the Islamofascists themselves, but by domestic voices in Europe and in America seeking to limit our freedom of expression at the expense of Muslim susceptibilities here and over there.
Like my freedom to state that God is Great, yes, but that Muhammad is not his prophet, that Islam is humanity's one unnecessary religion, that the Koran is no more inspired than a phone book, and that the political order described in Islamic sources is a totalitarian system that, among other things, will treat non-Muslims as second-class citizens in their own countries. No, we can't have that for the sake of social peace, we can't point out the numerous shortcomings of Islam in its traditional sources of belief and social ordering for fear of "offending".
They'll take away that liberty only over my dead body.
I'm no fan of satirical writers or cartoonists who pursue ridicule and meanness for their own sake, but I want to exercise, freely and without coercion of any kind, my moral choice against them. I want no turbaned terrorist pointing a gun at me and ordering me to conform, or else. Nor do I want to submit to new canons of Political Correctness coercing me not to think certain thoughts or say certain things for peace's sake. If I choose not to read or watch mean-spirited parodies, I want to do it via my free exercise of moral choice; if I want to tell Muslims their religion is fatally flawed and that no one goes to the Father but through Jesus Christ, I have a right and duty to tell them and they have a right to listen to what I say and then to follow their own consciences without fear of the Islamic penalty for "apostasy" which is social and/or physical death.
I'll keep the victims of the Islamofascist terror attack in Paris in my prayers. To the the Islamofascists who kill those who exercise their freedom of speech, and to those who would want to limit my own freedom of speech in the pursuit of "niceness", I say:
PING!
War with Islam.
It’s one sided.
Why not return the favor?
In quadruplicate?
:: I’m no fan of satirical writers or cartoonists who pursue ridicule and meanness for their own sake ::
I posit that “TDJ (@vivificat)” will be among the first to be executed under Sharia Law. TDJ will continually mouth his/her right to a “free press”.
Thanks for your input...stupid.
Because of the enemy islamist in the White House.
No, thank YOU for your great insight, troll.
Because we risk becoming like them. That would be a defeat, in my view.
The good news?...I carry.
I don’t understand your response to this posting. Are you in favor of submitting to islam?
I’m all for self-defense.
I don’t carry but I’m changing my mind...
~T.
I think we need to go on offense.
Well said. I had never heard of these folks before the mohammedan murderers killed them. “Bing” gave me a nice page full of their work. Some of it is extremely repulsive; vulgar, obscene, and blasphemous. They should have been engaged and countered in the realm of ideas. I pray for their repentance and conversion, and the repentance and conversion of others like them.
The mohammedans chose instead to murder them ... the mohammedans in turn should be hanged by the neck until they are dead.
You're Roman Catholic, right? Check out what your "Catechism of the Catholic Church" says about "legitimate defense". Then quit dithering.
I won’t be bullied into buying one.
Having said that, the problem is not one of conscience, it’s of safe and secure storage plus logistics. I have to make some improvements and since my wife is my CFO, it has to be done in stages.
Not that you care...
You see it clearly! ;-)
Actually, I do care ...
I'm somewhat fortunate, in that my wife is also a shooter. You (both) have to be comfortable with the safety and security of your firearms, and be willing to develop your skill at using them.
A Catholic friend pointed me to the relevant passage in your Catechism ... I was struck by the authors' description of "legitimate defense" as not just a right but a grave duty for those charged with the care of others.
In any case, the more decent Americans who exercise their right to keep and bear arms the better. IMO.
My own take is that people of conscience are not allowed to carry arms, only people WITHOUT a conscience will carry them. That’s the clincher for me.
Besides, I’m retired military. The question for me was not if I could act in self-defense while in uniform, but if I could and should do it as a civilian with a personal weapon.
My wife and I have decided that we can. The rest is building up the logistics, permissions, and know-how before we acquire our first firearm.
Best of luck sorting through the logistics, etc. Buying your first gun is difficult ... so many decisions. Buying your second gun is easier ... the first gun was lonely, after all.
Then you lock them up together in a dark cabinet, and they start reproducing ...
;’}
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