Originally Posted By: 2-piper
Two things should be definitely remembered.

1st; the 2nd amendment was not written about Sporting/Hunting guns or Target guns, it was about "Defensive" guns.

2nd as to inalienable rights "God" recognizes the difference between the defense of person &/or property & wanton Murder.

Quote:
Exo 22:2  If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. 
Exo 22:3  If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 
Exo 22:4  If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double. 


God recognized that even if the "Thief's" intent was only to steal, if the homeowner felt his life endangered or if in the process of retaining his property the Thief was killed, he would NOT be held accountable for the thief's death.



I hate to say this, Miller, but the Old Testament is a less than valuable tool when fighting to preserve your gun rights. In today's society, rightly or wrongly, in the mind's of the majority, it is source material that is viewed as irrelevant at best and perverse at worst.

While you and others may be, most today are not Bible literalists. To use it that way, in the literal sense, undermines your argument, in the majority view. And, of course, if the vast majority WERE literalists, we wouldn't have to constantly be defending these rights.

Not being critical of you or your beliefs....only pointing out it's not viewed as a credible argument.

The fact's are, however we got here, that everyone, and frankly every creature living, has a right to try to defend itself from attack and harm. THE RIGHT TO DEFEND OURSELVES HAS NEVER BEEN GIVEN TO US BY A GOVERNMENT. The only thing a government can do is take away the means to defend oneself. Which they have been doing for 5000 years.

Last edited by canvasback; 03/23/19 09:44 AM.

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