Gun control and gun safety go hand in hand. To me gun safety means the prudent use of firearms by responsible adults. There are those who jokingly refer to how one feels as a sniper when you kill a terrorist – and say, “I feel the recoil!” There are those who feel intimidated or even threatened by such a statement, though I’m not one. I do feel threatened knowing that our laws allow unstable individuals to buy and even wear firearms. I feel there is no place for a firearm in say, a restaurant, bar, or Church.

I certainly don’t feel reluctant to criticize a father who lets his young sons go hunting, when one is 8 and the older of the two is ten. One of those children is now dead, and certainly that family will be traumatized for their entire lives. Why!!!

I also disagree with the notion that our founding fathers, in an era and climate before and subsequent to the American Revolution, conceived that each individual (aside from hunting) needed a weapon aside from any potential use as a member of a county, city, or state militia. The Second Amendment reads … from Wikipedia

There are several versions of the text of the Second Amendment, each with slight capitalization and punctuation differences, found in the official documents surrounding the adoption of the Bill of Rights.^[5] One such version was passed by the Congress, which reads:^[6]

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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

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Another version is found in the copies distributed to the states, and then ratified by them, which had this capitalization and punctuation:^[7]

“	A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. ”

I feel so much safer knowing we have politicians with Presidential aspirations whose ads of support for fellow politicians includes putting rifle cross hairs on an electoral district.

Don’t you?

Saw an ad at the fitness center, on Fox News… Former Governor and ordained Southern Baptist minister Mike Huckabee – wants to get 5 million signatures to support a plan to repeal recent health care reforms. The health care reforms will eventually provide an avenue for 40 million some Americans without health care coverage to get coverage. In my mind this is like asking 5 million to repeal the basic medical needs of eight times as many other Americans. This is a strange thing for a clergyman to endorse, and makes me very concerned about the morality and sense of values of some ministers.

A plea – to the Billionaires and Millionaires amongst us… Please donate some of your discretionary funds to charities or NGOs… to make a better world, feed the hungry, clothe the naked! (And do it out of the goodness of your hearts, not as a tax write off.

Dressed for Salvation Day, Hallelujah!  Amen, Praise be!  Oops, the Rapture enveloped me. This is something of great personal, spiritual mystery to me. I don’t fathom (six feet of water) it. Can someone enlighten me?

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