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Do you believe in eschatology, specifically the Second Coming of Christ? I do, and there are signs of His return. But, that is for the End Times section.
People have been saying that there are signs of Christ's return since His ascension. I ascribe to the idea that we will know neither the day nor the hour of His return and should live every day as if it will be simultaneously tomorrow and ten thousand years from now. Abdicating all responsibility for the world simply because you think you've seen signs of the Second Coming is irresponsible in the extreme.
That is true, people predicted the end for almost twenty centuries. We will never know the hour of Christ's return. I do try to be green and stuff, as the Bible also warns us about harming the environment. But, there is nothing you or I could do to stop the gun violence. It is up to the politicians, and as of now, the politicians do not seem to care. So, we must just be vigilant.
yes, but how many people ACTUALLY die in true mass shootings with no cause very few comparely. At this point the cat is "out of the bag and not only do people want to try to ban the "wrong" guns most of the time, but at tis point not only is there not a snowball's chance in Tampa that they could get anywhere close to all the guns off the street, but I have a feeling if they were foolish enough to try there would be more death that way than there already is.
Yeah, so we should just give up on this issue. Nothing will change, and we should just live out our lives. I do not feel as much anymore about these shootings, and have become desensitized to them.
I have at least one idea, but we would have to be VERY careful to do it right.
In 2040, the Euphrates river is expected to dry up, according to the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources, due to dryer climates from anthropogenic global warming. The Bible says in Revelation that the Euphrates will dry up in the end times. Seems that human caused global warming might be one of those signs of the times that we are living in. So, we might be just a few decades off from the end times. So, is there anything we can do between now and even 2100 (60 years after the river is expected to dry up) to change things when it comes to reducing violence? Probably not, cos we live in a fallen world. Get back into Revelations, brother.
I have heard things, such as give employees or teachers guns, so that the employee can shoot the gunman down, however, that could be risky, and scare customers off, and only exacerbate the issues.
If a gun control advocate depicts gun owners as violent people who will kill others over not getting their way that would clearly be unacceptable but here this is.
Agreed 100%. Nothing can change in America, and nothing has since 2012. Luckily, my parents and I go to Europe, and the gun violence there is really low, and the continent seems pretty peaceful compared to North America. I do live in a safe city in the US, thankfully.
yes I support that, but my idea was actually to somehow some way encourage people to say something when they suspect a person may be a danger and actually act on it The risk there is the way the law is set up you do not want people claiming that because they do not like someone and just do not WANT them to have a gun. My idea would be if two unrelated people ( would not need to be unrelated to the person but unrelated to each other say an employer and a family member ( where the two people would not be basically working togather OR if one person reported something and they had some kind of proof such as a text to say that yes this person is a danger the police could look into it.
20 out of more than 500? A few percent. Why even cancel class? Refuse to live in fear!
