All right, I guess I have to stop saying no one wants to eliminate guns completely."As bishops, we support measures that control the sale and use of firearms and make them safer -- especially efforts that prevent their unsupervised use by children or anyone other than the owner -- and we reiterate our call for sensible regulation of handguns."
That's followed by a footnote that states: "However, we believe that in the long run and with few exceptions -- i.e. police officers, military use -- handguns should be eliminated from our society."
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prais the lord and pass the ammunition is out then?
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EXCOMMUNICATE THE FIVE FOOLS (ON THE SCOTUS)!
ReplyDeleteCan't be a Catholic and a gunloon.
ReplyDeleteYou wish Jadegold.
ReplyDeleteSadly, I know quite a few gun nuts who are roman catholic.
I believe the anti-abortion wacko who proudly killed Dr. Tillerman in Kansas was one for example, and the "I'm not a witch" candidate, Christine O'Donnell, a sometimes Catholic is another.
All right, I guess I have to stop saying no one wants to eliminate guns completely.
ReplyDeleteA bit of progress toward integrity on your part, although I note your apparent continued odd resistance to use of the word "ban."
Any comment on Violence Policy Center executive director Josh Sugarmann's book: Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case For Banning Handguns?
How 'bout the fact that every "gun control" group in the U.S. of which I am aware is a member of IANSA, whose director (well, former director, as of not too long ago), called for a civilian ban on every rifle that "can kill someone at 100 meters distance"--meaning, basically, every rifle?
As evil as the Catholic Church's advocacy of "gun control" is, I suppose it's somewhat understandable. They certainly have a reason to wish that folks be unarmed, and it would be a bit too obvious to limit their advocacy to disarming choir boys' parents.
ReplyDeleteWhat a surprise. The pedophile protectors agree with civilian disarmament. Next you're going to tell me that shoplifters are against security cameras and house breakers are against locked doors.
ReplyDeleteZorro, Thanks for noticing my increased integrity. The fact is, now that you mention it, there are those voices out there who call for total disarmament. But are they a credible threat to your lifestyle? Are they representative of the gun control movement as we know and love it? No, of course not. So why do you continue to cite them and insist on the absurd proposition that "forced citizen disarmament" is the goal?
ReplyDelete1. you're just saying it to be dramatic, a type of hyperbole.
2. you are paranoid
3. there is no 3.
Well, Jesus certainly was into non-violence. He would certainly be for gun control.
ReplyDeleteThis brings to mind a great cartoon recently:
http://unreasonablefaith.com/2010/04/22/if-jesus-returned-as-glenn-beck/
But are they a credible threat to your lifestyle?
ReplyDeletePerhaps not--it's not as if any U.S. Senators have expressed a desire for bans.
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If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them, Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in, I would have done it.
Then again, Feinstein ain't any more bulletproof than anyone else, so I guess there's always a reliable way to stop her.
As I said earlier, the VPC's executive director wants to ban all handguns (plus "assault weapons," .50 caliber rifles, and so-called "intermediate sniper rifles"--what else?). The CSGV was once called the National Coalition to Ban Handguns, and changed their name not out of a loss of interest in banning those but because they also want to ban so-called "assault weapons."
Former Brady Bunch director (when they called themselves Handgun Control, Inc.) Nelson T. "Pete" Shields said:
I'm convinced that we have to have federal legislation to build on. Our ultimate goal -- total control of handguns in the United States -- is going to take time. My estimate is from seven to ten years. The problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns sold in this country. The second problem is to get them all registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition -- except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors -- totally illegal.
All those groups, and every other American "gun control" group with which I am familiar, is affiliated with IANSA, an international group that has expressed a desire to ban just about anything with a barrel and trigger.
This from the same organization that wants to ban condoms. They have moved themselves into irrelevancy when they decided to hide the pedophiles.
ReplyDeleteZorro, Your latest comment leaves me still unsure of whether
ReplyDelete1. you're just saying it to be dramatic, a type of hyperbole.
2. you are paranoid
hyperbole
ReplyDeleteparanoid
they're not mutually exclusive...but they do make it fun to laugh at zorro.
Zorro, Your latest comment leaves me still unsure of whether
ReplyDelete1. you're just saying it to be dramatic, a type of hyperbole.
2. you are paranoid
Neither. There exist people who wish the forcible disarmament of all private citizens in the U.S. They won't succeed, because those of us who love liberty will stop them--by whatever means necessary.
By the way, another reason that it's not at all surprising that the Catholic Church supports forcible citizen disarmament: their leader is, after all, a former Hitler youth. "Gun control" and Nazism--they just go together.
Yes, Zorroy, by mentioning that there are such people, and pretending they do pose a real threat to you and your lifestyle, you get to trot out that old "by whatever means necessary" line.
ReplyDeleteYou remind me of the adolescent school-yard bully who terrorizes the other boys, at least as long as he can get away with it.