ASK FATHER: A Blessing For Guns

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Perhaps any blessing should be accompanied by fervent prayer that the nation’s perceived need to rely on weapons for its well-being might recede and the crime rate might decline.
 
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This is the best thing I’ve seen all day. lol. I should have my priest bless my guns before next hunting season. Maybe God will bless me with a big ole buck. lol. Makes me wish I would have had my chaplain bless my 249 when I was in Iraq.
 
spiritualsamurai said:
The founders instated the Second Amendment in order that the people might have a power to restrict an overreaching government from encroaching on their rights. It’s not about crime rates or needing to defend yourself against thugs. It isn’t about hunting. (though both of these things you have a right to as well) The Second Amendment is about defending yourself from the government , if it should ever overstep its bounds and threaten the rights of the people. Thomas Jefferson puts it well: “What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms.” George Mason has a good quote that shows the opposite side of the spectrum. “To disarm the people…s the most effectual way to enslave them.”
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Well, I wasn’t going to go there, lest anything I would say, could be interpreted as advocacy of overthrowing the government by force. I will let Jefferson and Mason make those arguments. But I think this speaks to another facet of the discussion as well — in that our country is founded upon the (errant) principle that governments derive their sovereignty from the consent of the governed, the government, in the end, is from us, of us, and answerable to us. I once heard a monarchist Catholic commentator say that in the ideal Catholic society, we would not have leaders, we would have rulers, because the relationship of king to subjects mirrors the relationship of God to man, and God does not “lead” us, He “rules” us. But this country is not a Catholic commonwealth (unfortunately), nor is it a monarchy (ditto). The government is “all of us” and can never be allowed to become a tyrannical cabal.
 
Hmmm. Like it or not, the nation was established by force and is defended - defended - by force. And to blame guns for crime is misplaced and very likely generated by the media. Thugs. Do they have anything to do with it? Does the media ever condemn thuggery? No! But those nasty inanimate objects must go! Such thinking IMO is illogical. Dangerous to freedom.

Do you really expect (insert leader’s name) military to keep you safe and protect your rights? Especially when the US Supreme court has stated that government has no duty to do so?

Are you forgetting that 4X as many die each day in traffic accidents? I see zero concern there. Apparently, driver’s lives don’t matter.
 
po18guy said:
While so many are wetting their pants over guns, 103 souls lose their lives each day in the US - men, women, children, babies, grandparents - you name them - in traffic accidents. Do they count? Are you as concerned about traffic and vehicular safety?
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I most heartily agree.

I read recently of a very sad accident in which a father shot his young son while they were out hunting. I have a young son myself, and he has been agitating for me to take him hunting. I thought when I read this, “could the anti-gun people have a point?”. Then I reasoned to myself, “yes, and what about the child who was playing in the driveway and his father backed over her and killed her?” (I think he was a country music singer or something). Do we ban cars because people get hurt by them? I drove by a pretty bad accident yesterday, woman sitting inside a crushed automobile with her head thrown back as though she was passed out or something. Happens every day of the world. Far, far more people are killed and injured in car accidents than by guns.
 
And I am not mentioning the thousands of traffic injuries daily that are not fatal, the property damage, as well as the use of vehicles in too many crimes to count.

And, we have no right to drive! It’s nowhere in that formerly revered document.

Look, folks, life is dangerous. Motion is dangerous. Ladders are. Steps are. Bath tubs are. Electric appliances are. Icy sidewalks are. Human hearts are!
 
Next we’ll be seeing blessings for aspirators, sopher clamps, curettes, and bottles of mifepristone. Because they’re just tools, you know. Tools don’t abort people. Only people abort people.
 
po18guy said:
Like it or not, the nation was established by force and is defended - defended - by force.
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The citizenry are not defending the nation at all.
po18guy said:
And to blame guns for crime is misplaced
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I didn’t do that.
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But those nasty inanimate objects must go!
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Widespread availability of and easy access to guns died bring risks and downsides.
po18guy said:
Do you really expect (insert leader’s name) military to keep you safe and protect your rights? Especially when the US Supreme court has stated that government has no duty to do so?
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I don’t feel the fear to which you refer. And I highly doubt my safety is enhanced by owning a gun. I in fact feel that widespread availability and easy access to guns probably reduces my safety.
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Are you forgetting that 4X as many die each day in traffic accidents?
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No.
 
You can, but wild game has different taste and lacks many chemicals found in commercial meat. People still have vegetable gardens even though you can buy cans of corn in the store.

I rarely hunt, but love to fish. Fresh caught fish is vastly superior to frozen Chinese catfish.
 
flamingpuppet said:
Couldn’t pay me enough.
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Couldn’t pay you enough to live in the most livable city in the United States?

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Perfect climate.

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Incredible beauty.

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Largest Chinatown outside China and oldest in north America.

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Sea lions.
 
Riiiiight…
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And average rent just $3,733 per month!
 
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I’m not saying that San Francisco doesn’t have its problems. It just seems a bit extreme to say that nobody could pay you enough to live there. We could do this for everywhere I bet.

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Couldn’t pay you enough to live in New York City.

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Couldn’t pay you enough to live in London.
 
Nope. Wouldn’t live in those places either. No more big cities for me.
 
The picture hurt my heart.

“The blade itself incites to violence.”
Homer
 
This is not a Catholic issue. Plenty of priests wouldn’t bless guns. This is more of an American conservative vs progressive debate. This debate doesn’t even register for Catholics in other countries.
 
repentant2 said:
I would rather live in hell itself than anywhere in the state of California.
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What’s so bad about California? Despite the problems already highlighted, it’s a wonderful part of the world. I am not even originally from California. I am from New York City.
 
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