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Response to Ann Coulter Regarding Men Who Kill
Ann Coulter writes, “Guns don’t kill people, the mentally ill do” (link) as the title of her post documenting the various testimonies to obviously disturbing behavior of several spree shooters. Ms. Coulter thinks that these young men suffered from a mental illness. Clearly, their behavior was abnormal – normal people don’t go around killing other…
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Gun Control and Scripture
The earliest historical record of arms control actually predates guns. The Philistines implemented a weapons control regime in order to suppress the Israelites: 1 Samuel 13:19-20Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:” but all the Israelites went down…
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Heart Checks: The Impossible Conclusion to the Logical Progression
I noticed that Reformed Musings had a post on the topic of the relation between crime and gun-control (link). The relation, of course, is that as gun control tightens, crime (including crime involving guns) increases. Now, as Reformed Musings noted, Britain has started implementing more expansive weapons searches that look for knives (the new weapon…