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RE: You can't say that anymore.
December 30, 2019 at 7:34 pm
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I hear on the news that "The good guy with a gun" was paid by the church and a firearm instructor. Not just some rando.
Edit: "Paid" is in question, maybe I heard wrong.
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RE: You can't say that anymore.
December 30, 2019 at 7:46 pm
The idea that more guns make us safer ignores some important considerations. If everybody is armed and someone opens fire, what does everybody do?
They immediately and correctly ID the shooter.
They immediately and correctly determine if that shooter was the primary hazard or responding to another threat.
They then decide whether to shoot, based on probability that their shots will hit only the threat.
They hit the threat and only the threat.
They cease fire when the threat is down or disarmed.
They do not fire at other good guys with guns or the police when they arrive.
Yeah, right.
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RE: You can't say that anymore.
December 31, 2019 at 2:47 am
Yeah maybe everyone should wear like two guns on their hips on a belt with extra ammo and settle everything with guns. Maybe people could settle who is a good guy by standing opposite each other and then drawing a gun really fast because good guy with a gun would always win even when he loses because, as bad guy with a gun wins, good guys keep challenging him. That would be a good way to weed out bad guys.
Also maybe people could wear like hats on their heads because it goes nicely with the guns and perhaps ride horses to lower the CO2 footprint - cuz that's what good guys do.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"