Sipsey Street Irregulars: Should Christians Own Guns?

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Should Christians Own Guns?

Uh, yeah.

Man is made in God’s image. Careless disregard for life means disregard for God’s law and hypocrisy towards the creator and His words. Hand-wringing over guns versus knives or clubs or pepper spray or locked doors just means that you’re straining at a gnat in order to swallow a camel. You don’t care about the women or children. You’re a self-absorbed, self righteous, pampered product of the effete chattering class, unnecessary to and a bad fit for the very people to whom you are speaking. No one is listening any more.

6 comments:

Scott J said...: http://www.barnhardt.biz/the-one-about-jesus-and-guns/; May 21, 2015 at 6:19 AM
PO'd American said...: Another wonderful treatise by Herschel.; May 21, 2015 at 7:14 AM
Sean said...: That needed to be said. Amen and Amen.; May 21, 2015 at 9:03 AM
Anonymous said...: The arguments have nothing to do with religion or christianity (excepting protection from those who kill in the name of religion).
Don't ask or tell me what jesus would do, only what you and we should do as a free & rational society.; May 21, 2015 at 10:31 AM
skybill said...: Hi Mike,
I could only read part of that and had to quit! Yada,yada! 'have ta' go read Sgt. Joe's "Rules for a 'Gun Fight' again! Meanwhile, back at the ranch, 'got the radio playin' out on the table on the back deck, ..."War, Children..it's just a shot away....!!(The Stones') I take aim at a can on the board out past the shed...POW!!..Ping!!! as the can flips into the air!! "Practice..Practice!!"
Got Gunz??,
III%,
skybill-out; May 21, 2015 at 1:48 PM
BobF said...: Just bought "A Time to Kill: THe Myth of Christian Pacifism" but have only skimmed it as I have several others to read first. The premise is that just because one may be a Christian doesn't mean they cannot/should not kill if necessary in self defense.

Personally I have no problem with the concept and I was rather surprised that others apparently do, but it explains some folks' behaviors that I thought were just plain self destructive.; May 21, 2015 at 6:56 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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