Originally Posted By: Drew Hause
Konor: you've been here since 2013 and must be aware that others have attempted to confront the violation of the rules clearly posted by the owner of this site, who has chosen to ignore those rules by allowing racist, homophobic, bigoted, school-boy personal attacks and name calling, by a few cowardly bullies. The site is what it is, and the cure for the frustration is non-participation.

So just stop. Like..."The American situation is such that to be unarmed is probably not a good choice given the availability of firearms" is a faulty premise. "The American situation" is that very bad people who are for the most part prohibited by law from owning handguns, have them, and use them to hurt those weaker, or are defenseless, by their own foolish choice or by government edict.
BTW: at least in the U.S. South, Midwest, Southwest and Inter-mountain West it is viewed as bad form when a moral and intellectual superior shows up and lectures the locals as to the defects of their community, customs, culture; without spending a long time investing in the community and trying to understand the culture. Where in the U.S. have you spent time, and how much time?

Are you acquainted with Thomas Guthrie? He was a Free Church of Scotland minister, a founder of “Ragged Schools”, and the Free Church Temperance Society, with Horatius Bonar and William Chalmers Burns. He is not as well known as Samuel Rutherford, Alexander Maclaren or the Bonar brothers, but is another "Thundering Scot".
LR would particularly like Saving Knowledge: Addressed To Young Men
https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZdUAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

This is from his Speaking To The Heart, “The Trial and Triumph of Faith”
"The times, it is said, make men. True; but it is as true that men are made for the times - raised up by God with gifts and graces suited to the work they have to do."
These times are nothing like the "The Killing Time" the Covenanters endured, but 2020 has been a terrible time. What kind of men are we going to be?





As you may or may not know the catalyst that caused me to dispute posts on this forum was the posting of “facts” surrounding the handgun ban in Scotland post Dunblane . So the point made by yourself about passing comment with little knowledge or understanding of the situation is apt. I do not consider myself morally or intellectually superior and to argue that that is the case would be pointless when the undercurrent of most of the political postings is to make just that point.
It should not be lost on you that the Covenanters of the south west of Scotland were massacred by Highland Scots soldiers who also raped and murdered and a sizeable number withdrew into the Ayrshire hills from where they returned via the raiders roads to thieve cattle and cause chaos.Or that Culloden had Highland armies on both side of the conflict. It is no little wonder that Scots fail to see in black and white. Weren’t the Scots deeply involved in the formation of the Klu Klux clan and haven’t we fought on the behalf of England and the Empire for over a century with a hand in numerous atrocities around the world from South Africa to Ireland from Aden to India. There will be few Scots who see things as black and white as some contributors here do and this is probably due to their heritage and awareness of the complexities and contradictions found in their own history.
That people have taken time to inform me of their opinion I appreciate and I am not voicing an opinion to change the opinions of others. I do so merely to let my opinion be heard whether it is considered valid or not is not my greatest concern. My greatest concern is having the freedom to voice that opinion.

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