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Judi Lynn

(160,621 posts)
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 07:27 PM Aug 2018

Jacksonville councilman on shooting: We've got a problem with guns and faith

Source: The Hill


BY MEGAN KELLER - 08/26/18 06:06 PM EDT

Jacksonville, Fla., city councilman Reggie Gaffney told a reporter on Sunday that Americans need to talk about gun control and getting closer with God after a shooting in his district Sunday afternoon.

“I think we’ve really go to ask ourselves two questions,” Gaffney told a local CBS/Fox affiliate shortly after reports of the shooting. “What are we going to do about guns? And we’ve really got to get focused on getting closer with the Lord.”

“I really think we’ve got a gun problem in America, I think we’ve got a gun problem in Jacksonville, and I think we’ve got a faith problem," Gaffney said.

The councilman said he is “very sad and frustrated” after “the second shooting in less than 48 hours.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/403713-jacksonville-councilman-on-shooting-we-need-to-talk-about-gun

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Jacksonville councilman on shooting: We've got a problem with guns and faith (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2018 OP
Oh good grief. You can get as "close to God" as you want Croney Aug 2018 #1
+1 2naSalit Aug 2018 #3
How about encouraging the local clergy BigmanPigman Aug 2018 #2
Leave god out of it 2naSalit Aug 2018 #4
As a recovering Evangelical gibraltar72 Aug 2018 #5
What's the relationship between faith and guns? mahannah Aug 2018 #6
Holy cow. This sounds like the congressman who said we don't need background checks Va Lefty Aug 2018 #7
WWJS? Roland99 Aug 2018 #8
No need for the "and Faith" dbackjon Aug 2018 #9
No. We have a problem with guns paleotn Aug 2018 #10
Faith will not stop toxic masculinity arithia Aug 2018 #11
+1,000 n/t MarcA Aug 2018 #12
That's quite a confessional, Judi Lynn... KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2018 #13
Gawd and guns Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2018 #14
Getting closer to God? jb5150 Aug 2018 #15
God Is The Adult Version Of Santa Claus DallasNE Aug 2018 #17
Oh right, because my agnostic and athiest friends and relatives and I do a whole lot of shooting. elleng Aug 2018 #16
Bullshit. Most of them do their praying for more guns. Firestorm49 Aug 2018 #18

Croney

(4,670 posts)
1. Oh good grief. You can get as "close to God" as you want
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 07:33 PM
Aug 2018

but a gun doesn't stop to measure your piety before it kills you.

BigmanPigman

(51,627 posts)
2. How about encouraging the local clergy
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 07:40 PM
Aug 2018

to get church goers to vote for FL politicians who support gun control.

Va Lefty

(6,252 posts)
7. Holy cow. This sounds like the congressman who said we don't need background checks
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 08:14 PM
Aug 2018

because God would not let anyone have a gun he did not want to.

arithia

(455 posts)
11. Faith will not stop toxic masculinity
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 08:29 PM
Aug 2018

and I'm sick and tired of the attitude that it will. Lack of religion in people's lives doesn't make them kill. Lack of respect for human life does.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,494 posts)
13. That's quite a confessional, Judi Lynn...
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 08:46 PM
Aug 2018

admitting both that there's too many guns and that churches are failing to instill perfect morality into the masses.

Welcome to the modern, right-wing states of America, councilman......

Thanks for the post!......

jb5150

(1,183 posts)
15. Getting closer to God?
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 09:18 PM
Aug 2018

Those people at that church in Texas were pretty close to God and it didn't help. It's almost as if God doesn't exist, or he doesn't give a shit.

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