Guns and My Faith: Conclusion

I thought due to the conversation generated through my previous post I would comment on how faith enters into my thinking. I generally do not use my faith as a trump card or my primary way to present ideas to people, but it is the first place I start analyzing any position or issue. Most people are more responsive to reasoning and political points of view, but I feel it is important that I respond on where I get my stance of gun rights based on being a christian.

The question is “what is Jesus Christ worldview.”

The first thing I believe I have to do and explain is who I believe Jesus is. He is the son of God. He is also part of a trinity with God the father and the Holy Spirit.

I believe each part of the trinity represents different aspects and characteristics of God. God the father was the just, jealous, and at times even violent. He demanded perfection in the Old Testament to prove we could not live up to His expectations and needed a savior.

God the son was grace, mercy, forgiveness, and that savior we needed.

Even though I believe that all three have shown different characteristics they are the same God and have all the characteristics. I believe God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

I believe Jesus would want me to stop and help someone who has been beat up (the good Samaritan parable) or to help prevent someone from being beat up or killed. I believe I am suppose to lay down my life for my friends and for those I encounter. I put my comfort, safety, and possibly my freedom (could be put in jail) for stepping in to help a stranger.

That is the heart of which I carry a gun with. That is my mindset I believe the God I serve would want me to have.

Now I do not believe that if you do not carry a gun you are wrong. I don't believe that at all.

Now I completely agree with what Chad stated about making the world a safer place. That the world needs a relationship with Jesus Christ and us as Christians having relationships with people and caring for people with the heart of God is the best way to change our world for the better and to make our world a safer place.

I was more stating that as far as gun laws and “gun safety” that it would be safer for everyone to have a gun rather than just criminals having guns because they are the only ones willing to break the law to own them. If our government make it illegal to carry a handgun criminals will still have handguns and that is what my premise and conclusion is.

I loved the responses and hoped you enjoyed hearing what others had to say as much as I did. I believe we are to challenge each other in how we think and that is always what I am trying to do when I talk about issues or topics. I thought about where I stood this week a lot, prayed, and read the Bible just because of the responses and challenges. I am more confident now more than ever on my stances with gun rights and more confident than ever on how I believe I am suppose to help others in need of a miracle.

Feel free to keep the conversation going, but I'll try to have a different topic sent out in the next day or so in case you are sick of this one.

Thanks

The Bantam Voice

“Freed People Free People”

Guns: Menace or Hero?

This week I for the first time since open carrying (carrying a gun on my side, legal in some states including NC) I had a situation where it was almost brought into play.

I am a huge gun rights supporter and believe more law abiding citizens needs guns, but this even really shook me to my core and gave me first hand experience why a handgun can be a hero more than a menace.

My wife and I were driving past a 60 year old (or so) gentleman who seemed to be scared of another man who was around 20 or so. As we drove past we could tell that a fight may be about to break out and slowed down to see if we needed to get out of the car. As we watched looking back the younger man starting beating the older man with a baseball bat in the middle of the road.

By the time we could turn around and jumped out there were nearly 10 cars all watching and no one getting out of the car to help stop this. I was about 7 car lengths away and ran up while calling 911. An officer arrived right and I was getting close and the operator told me not to get any closer the officer would handle it.

Yet I had just seen a man laying flat on his back in the middle of the road being beat with a baseball bat. I could not tell how injured the older man was, but the situation leads me to believe it was serious.

If I was closer could I have stopped this with my gun. Convinced the younger man to stop? What is the other cars carried a handgun and they were able to stop this?

We are law abiding citizens and people of character are the ones who need to be carrying handguns. Our federal, state, and local governments somehow cannot figure out an elementary school economics problem.

If you make a law forbidding guns in a city (like Chicago), government building, school, or bank the only people who have the power and responsibility of handguns are people who are breaking the law. This doesn't fix the problem or guns being dangerous and being used to harm people. Laws only stop law abiding citizens from bringing a gun into a bank. By definition a law abiding citizen will not use a gun to rob a bank! So the next time you hear of a bank being robbed at gun point, or the slaughter of dozens of people at a school shooting, think how it may have gone if every teacher, bank teller, and law abiding citizen was carrying a handgun.

If everyone was carrying a gun I believe that the world would be a safer place, and criminals would think twice before threatening other peoples life because they know that other people are also armed.

Would love to hear your thoughts on it.

The Bantam Voice
"Freed People Free People"

Where the Candidates Stand on Gun Rights

Candidates that support the right to bear arms

Mitt Romney

Rick Perry

Michelle Bauchman

Rick Santorum

Newt Gingrich

Jon Huntsman
Herman Cain
Ron Pauls

Candidates that do not support

There are no GOP candidates currently running that oppose the 2nd amendment.

Gun Rights (2nd Amendment)

This is possibly one of the easiest issues and should be cut and dry. Any American should have the right to purchase and have a handgun with NO TRACKING AT ALL.  Also we should be able to take a gun into a bank, store, bar, school, etc.

Now if you abuse that right and commit a crime with a gun you should lose that right (but if our judicial system was right you would probably be in jail for so long that you didn't have the chance to ever get another gun.)

Once again in a vaccum sounds like a terrible idea, but then does it?
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