Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: The 2A has been written by men and can just as easily be deleted by men. It's no biggie. [View all]Sophia4
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Therefore, God did not create the right of men to possess guns.
God can be said to have given mankind the ability to speak and even to write (with a finger of course), but God did not give mankind guns.
Therefore, God did not give mankind the right to possess a gun.
Guns are manufactured by men, not by God.
It is absurd to claim that the right to possess a gun is God-given.
It simply cannot be.
The other rights in the Bill of Rights can be said to be part of the natural order, or, if you will, granted by God. But the Second Amendment with the right to bear arms cannot have been granted by God. The right to defend oneself may be natural, but not the right to bear arms and harm and be harmed by AR-15s in the first place.
Of course, --- some may still believe in the God of the Old Testament -- an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But not since Hillel and Jesus do people believe int that. It does not work well for anyone who is smaller than an attacker.
Jesus did not resist his arrest and faced death without defending himself. That's another story. People who believe in living according to Jesus' teachings are pacifists and probably would not use a gun.
Above all, an AR-15 is a horribly destructive weapon. It should have no place in our homes, on our streets and certainly it should have no place in our schools or churches.
Imagine a country in which we did not have any school or restaurant or church or movie theater or mall shootings. Imagine a country in which we had no shootings with AR-15s. Imagine a country in which people did not shoot each other or themselves.
What country would you really rather live in -- the one we have now with all the shootings or one in which guns were harder to get and we had either many fewer shootings or no shootings at all?
We need to work and cooperate to make our country a peaceful place. That means no AR-15s anywhere and many fewer guns.