Listen, I’m not not a gun person. Literally in the early days of teaching my kid to shoot safely. But can someone explain to me, in detail, how and why people argue that gun ownership is a “God given” right? Chapter and verse would be great
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Replying to @jessicashortall
I can't say I'm quite the Bible scholar that I should be, but most times in using arms in the Bible it was usually at the behest of the government, ie David's army. Peter in the garden and turning the other cheek would seem to suggest that maybe the right to carry isn't biblical
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Replying to @PeytonWXYZ @jessicashortall
Peter in the garden?? You mean when one of Jesus’ *armed* companions raises his sword? Yes, Jesus admonishes him for the particular use, but not the fact he was armed. Indeed, in Luke’s account a few verses earlier, Jesus is telling one of them to sell their cloak & buy a sword.
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To fulfill prophecy Matt, not for self defense. Using the Bible to justify the 2A as a God given right is dumb.
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Replying to @PeytonWXYZ @jessicashortall
Read my tweet again. I said the Bible condones self defense and defense of others. Our founders viewed that as sufficient to consider it an inalienable and/or natural right and had our Federal Government’s charter covenant to preserve it
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Thanks for your thoughts. I’m gonna separate out whatever the founders wanted because they weren’t prophets and the constitution is not the word of God. I’m talking about arguments that 2A is a “God-given right” 1/
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