Comments on: Pastor urges his congregation to bring their guns to church http://www.john-wright.net/2009/06/28/pastor-urges-his-congregation-to-bring-their-guns-to-church/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pastor-urges-his-congregation-to-bring-their-guns-to-church Not Facebook Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:58:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John http://www.john-wright.net/2009/06/28/pastor-urges-his-congregation-to-bring-their-guns-to-church/comment-page-1/#comment-13656 John Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:57:44 +0000 http://www.john-wright.net/?p=2018#comment-13656 Ah Ronan. The issue is one of reasonable force. I could swat a fly with a bulldozer, but it wouldn't exactly be reasonable. In reality, the criminals the 2nd Amendment exists to offer protection from are not using ground to air missiles, so it's hard to see why the spirit of the Amendment would protect the rights to own them. Not that I object, you understand! I think it's only people who are largely <em>dis</em>trustful of their fellow humankind that want to ban guns (as though that were any more logical than banning nail guns, hammers or automobiles for exactly the same reasons!). People are mostly good and law-abiding. And those who aren't can't be controlled by the law anyway, by definition! (As we see in London, for example, where guns are utterly illegal and they're still the tools used in vast numbers of homocides.) Ah Ronan. The issue is one of reasonable force. I could swat a fly with a bulldozer, but it wouldn’t exactly be reasonable. In reality, the criminals the 2nd Amendment exists to offer protection from are not using ground to air missiles, so it’s hard to see why the spirit of the Amendment would protect the rights to own them. Not that I object, you understand!

I think it’s only people who are largely distrustful of their fellow humankind that want to ban guns (as though that were any more logical than banning nail guns, hammers or automobiles for exactly the same reasons!).

People are mostly good and law-abiding. And those who aren’t can’t be controlled by the law anyway, by definition! (As we see in London, for example, where guns are utterly illegal and they’re still the tools used in vast numbers of homocides.)

]]> By: Ronan http://www.john-wright.net/2009/06/28/pastor-urges-his-congregation-to-bring-their-guns-to-church/comment-page-1/#comment-13619 Ronan Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:18:46 +0000 http://www.john-wright.net/?p=2018#comment-13619 Ah, but the second amendment protects "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms". So the question is, would you support the pastor if he had also encouraged people to bring (unarmed of course) rocket launchers, ground to air missiles, hand grenades, nuclear bombs, etc, the owning of all of which are protected under the second amendment? And if not, why not? Ah, but the second amendment protects “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms”. So the question is, would you support the pastor if he had also encouraged people to bring (unarmed of course) rocket launchers, ground to air missiles, hand grenades, nuclear bombs, etc, the owning of all of which are protected under the second amendment? And if not, why not?

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