[quote=SK in CV][quote=ocrenter]
People turn to God and religion when things are out of control. That’s why people always pray and turn to whatever god they worship during earthquakes and typhoon/hurricane or other natural disasters.
You are turning to your God because we have flooded this country with guns and ammo and things are unraveling and becoming out of control. Yet you still love your guns and too paranoid to support registration and control.
Given complete lack of control over this conflicting loveaffair with guns yet scared at the same time because of the uunraveling increase in gun violence, you turn to, of course, GOD.[/quote]
Belief is a choice. I just found your words very interesting shit to think about. Thanks for sharing.[/quote]
Must be me as I don’t find those words interesting at all; I do find wild assumptions being made not to mention that ocrenter stepped into the trap I set.
In my original comment I never mention god, in fact I’m an agnostic and I don’t even own a gun.
But ocrenter states I’m paranoid and yet has no idea what I might or might not supprt registration wise.
ocrenter then goes on to say godless countries have less gun violence. Wrong: those countries are NOT godless and they haven’t been as poisoned by the progressive/liberal agendas to the extent the US has.
You see ocrenter, it’s not about god per se; it’s about the solid value system and self-esteem more people than not derive from participating in a religion.
The libs have replaced that value system with relativism and materialism.
It’s not about guns, it’s about the person using the gun.
Two weeks ago Canada – which has strict gun control laws – had a “random” shooting.
A recent Harvard Study:
The study, which just appeared in Volume 30, Number 2 of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (pp. 649-694), set out to answer the question in its title: “Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? A Review of International and Some Domestic Evidence.” Contrary to conventional wisdom, and the sniffs of our more sophisticated and generally anti-gun counterparts across the pond, the answer is “no.” And not just no, as in there is no correlation between gun ownership and violent crime, but an emphatic no, showing a negative correlation: as gun ownership increases, murder and suicide decreases.
