Re: Days Since Last Mass Shooting: 0 - II
This is an interesting position and I wonder if you take the same view with gun control that much of the white evangelical movement does.
For every person that uses a firearm they are in legal possession of to thwart a violent crime, many, many innocent people are harmed and killed by someone else using a gun they are in legal possession of (up to the moment they use it negligently or criminally of course). Yet most white evangelicals are extremely opposed to any further restriction on firearm ownership.
The recent Independent Lens documentary "The Armor of Light" featuring Rob Schenck, a Washington D.C. evangelical minister was well worth watching. For me personally I could see the argument being made that those that are standing in the way of ANY meaningful change or even dialog (like allowing pediatricians to simply ask and remind new parents about common sense gun safety) are aiding and abetting the killing of plenty of innocent born people.
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This is an interesting position and I wonder if you take the same view with gun control that much of the white evangelical movement does.
For every person that uses a firearm they are in legal possession of to thwart a violent crime, many, many innocent people are harmed and killed by someone else using a gun they are in legal possession of (up to the moment they use it negligently or criminally of course). Yet most white evangelicals are extremely opposed to any further restriction on firearm ownership.
The recent Independent Lens documentary "The Armor of Light" featuring Rob Schenck, a Washington D.C. evangelical minister was well worth watching. For me personally I could see the argument being made that those that are standing in the way of ANY meaningful change or even dialog (like allowing pediatricians to simply ask and remind new parents about common sense gun safety) are aiding and abetting the killing of plenty of innocent born people.
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