My brother in Christ, did you really take this to be real? I should have said it was printed on a sign I saw the other day and thought it was funny and I told my wife and she laughed as well. (In fact, she just recently invested $400.00 in her own .38 concealed carry because the one she was carrying had too strong a spring to rack the slide.) We are both licensed by the state, have insurance, and we even take our guns to church. The people around us know what to expect if someone should ever bust into the doors and start shooting. In addition, when I buy a new gun the first thing the wife and I do is go over the history of it, why it was of interest to me, what I expect to do with it, and how much it cost and how that compares with market value. So I apologize if you think I was lying.
I consider guns were a wonderful technical art. Many of the older ones have history that can never be repeated. For example, I recently gave my son a S&W .38 revolver that my grandfather used as a special deputy when called to the
Texas City Dike explosion disaster. I also have a .30-30 rifle that was made in 1947 by Stevens and is not a lever action. It was made from a .30 caliber machine gun barrel that was intended to be used in WWII. Not having any other use the Stevens company made hunting rifles for the GI's returning home at it originally cost $36.00 mail order.
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I see guns as being no different than when a machinist takes a raw block of steel and turns it into a beautiful piece of something that goes somewhere to make something work. I also find it challenging and fun to purchase an old gun and work with it by repair or reloading specifically tuned bullets to shoot better than it did when I purchased it. (With my wife's blessing)
My brother in Christ, now that you know why I have guns and why I reload and that my wife really knows every gun and every round of ammunition I own, what worries me most is that anybody thinks it is
their place to tell us that we do not NEED guns or ammo or that we should squelch the desire to protect our family and our Country and/or the innocent. Also, that I do not know what scripture says about such matters. What I do know is that the essence, or spirit if you will, of the written Word of God is such that it does not matter what goes into the gun, it is what comes out of it that matters. What the gun is is not important. What is important is what you do with it. I carry one or even two of mine every day just about everywhere it is legal to do so. I have done so in the military, as a police officer, and even as an EMT and there is one thing I can assure you; The desire to harm any innocent person is not in my personality. I pray that I will enter the grave having never put somebody else there first.
My statement was intended to be a sort of campfire humor. Around the campfire we tell stories that may or may not be 100% true 100% of the time. Some of us like the dark of the night and a crackling fire to calm the nerves after a wonderful day of hunting and telling a joke or story or two. Some sit there staring into the leaping flames and drink tea, some coffee, some even drink a beer or a glass of wine, but none drink to excess and that is O.K.,. Some own one gun, some own over 20 guns, some over 30 (that is me) but that does not say that even one of them are intended to be ever used against any innocent person not do we challenge the saving Grace of Jesus Christ. Ever. Owning a gun or a thousand guns means absolutely nothing in relation to being a Christian.
