Archive for 7. April 2009

Why guns shouldn’t go: a clear, concise, and abnormal argument

Just like the insurance giant AIG was brought down to its knees by a rogue London branch of the company, so could American liberties be thrown away to deal with small factions of the country, and factions that aren’t representative of the majority of Americans, at that (1).

But before explaining how this might happen, a statement must be made. This article is not intended to belittle anyone beyond their personal behavior, nor is it meant to paint an entire group of people with the same brush. As a Christian, this writer understands that the wages of sin is death, and that apart from Christ we’re all sinful creatures, worthy of damnation and completely without hope. But just as we’re all equal in our depravity without Christ, we are equal in our Heavenly Father’s eyes when we accept Christ and become brothers and sisters in Him.

However, in order to protect the common good of the majority of Americans, some issues must be brought to light in this day and age, they’re not all fun to deal with, and they don’t engender the inclusive tone that brotherhood in Christ brings. That being said, today’s topic is gun control, and why certain very tiny groups of people are responsible for and generally subjected to the gun violence we read about, and why these groups of people are the only reason that anti-gun legislation is successful at all. In order to preserve the only things keeping us from history’s long chain of violent and brutally domineering governments, Americans must not only know the truth about gun violence in America, but speak the truth and live by it.  Read the rest of this entry »

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