There is no conflict between God and guns.
Churches already allow guns in Virginia. Police have them.
It’s a matter of who is allowed to have a gun in church.
Quakers were like that and to this day there still are Quakers.
It needs to be hammered out in each church. It would be easier and more logical to go down the pacifist road if its advocates were not for heavy government domination of other things.
Lionell. Bubba. God gave us the guns so we can protect ourselves in church. TRUST ME.
When it comes to most rational ideas, like allowing guns in church, democrats, liberals, progressives, etc., are fools. Jesus told Peter to bring a sword (the gun of their time). Fools, I tell you, very foolish fools.
If Virginia allows concealed carry, what is the problem? If a church welcomes people who carry....case closed.
EVERY church should have armed security. There are a lot of insane leftists out there.
Is it a lack of faith in God to own a fire extinguisher? Or to wear your seatbelt? Absolutely not.
If there’s anywhere you can trust God, it should be the church.
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I trust God, it’s the nutcases that I don’t trust.
Some of them are targeting churches.
This person is nuts.
It should be completely up to the churches as to what is or is not allowed within their establishments.
So I am to take it that Lionel Spruill does not lock his door at night and trusts God to keep him and his family safe.
My uncle concealed carry every day of his life until he died at age 91. He never had a permit and he traveled to almost all the states.
It won’t happen, ‘RAT Gov Northam will veto.
The law strikes at religious liberty. The state should not decide if it allows guns in churches. Churches should. Treating Churches more restrictively than other private property is wrong.
In the early colonies, people were sometimes required to be armed at church. In "Origins and Development of the Second Amendment", I found a reference to colonial requirements to carry guns in church from the Virginia laws of arms bearing.
All men that are fitting to bear arms, shall bring their pieces to the church...The law dated to 1631. David Hardy found it in the 1823 work by William Henning, "The Statutes at large, being a collection of all the laws of Virginia, Vol. 1 at 127, 173-174."
Nobody says anything where I fellowship. But the majority do carry. As that great philosopher once said: “I pity the fool that tries anything”
Virginia Carry laws (under prohibited)
Places of worship while a meeting for religious purposes is being held “without good and sufficient reason”(18.2-283)
next one is
Restaurants & Clubs: CC prohibited while consuming alcoholic beverages (18.2-308-12.b)
‘We’ (gun owners) should leave both of these alone before ‘they’ really screw us around.
If CNN can get away with ‘reporters hunch’ when they were at someones home at 0dark30, then I should be able to say ‘I had a hunch I should carry in church today’..
Besides....it is called CONCEALED CARRY for a reason
I think Jesus said something about this:
But Jesus declared, “It also says, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
I pray that some of our members and/or deacons are packing.
There is no conflict between God and guns.