Monday, July 28, 2008

Unitarian Universalists on Gun Control

Gun Control
1991 General Resolution
They're probably going to have to expand this now to include Fudd guns...

BECAUSE safe coexistence within society requires reasonable compromise with the concept of absolute personal liberty...

[Via Mack H]

13 comments:

opaww said...

My responce to all this is quite simple.

http://opawwsrange.blogspot.com/2008/07/as-of-right-now-we-have-won-big-battle.html

Anonymous said...

This policy only cost them two members over the weekend. Certainly an acceptable loss to ensure a society of ANTLIKE SOCIAL CONFORMITY.
An attacker with a MACHETE could have done as much as the shotgun assailant.
When an usher is limited to using his own body as a shield, something is very, very wrong.
Any time, anywhere, friends. Guns may not be legal in church where you live. Probably neither is random killing.
WOULD Bradyites stoop to committing such acts to get every single type of gun labeled a "weapon of choice" of mass murderers? They seem willing enough to DIE to prove their point.

Anonymous said...

It seems I was sadly prescient:

From Absolved, Interposition --

After that, the Jewish Defense League began to experience a resurgence, not only in California, but all over the country. Christian volunteers also began providing armed security for their own church properties and, in four cases, would-be mass murderers were killed in the parking lot before they could strike down innocents at worship, thus getting to meet the Devil a little earlier than they had planned. A website devoted to the fad carried this advice to the satanist faithful: "Don't target the Catholics, Baptists, Methodists or Presbyterians. They're more likely to pack when they pray. Hit the Unitarian-Universalists, they believe in gun control."

jon said...

"reasonable" indeed.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, I noticed that 'reasonable' word again, too.

Anonymous said...

Well done, Mr. V.
Was it that same day that a Christian radio station in State College, Pa., was shot up?
Makes you wonder.
I begin to be really angry at the turn-in-those-evil-guns ministers. They're sending precisely the WRONG message. In most of the rest of the world, Christians are the minority, with predictable results, considering that gun owners are also a tiny minority.
Did they teach, or did they learn from, our government?

Anonymous said...

"Safe coexistence?"

They must think the Gangster Disciples are an African-American Episcopal Methodist urban outreach ministry.

The classic mistake of believing that your mortal enemy also just wants to get along, same as you.
I learned the hard way, in a small way, in public school. NO, the violent do NOT think like us. They breathe rage, they hunger for dominance, over that guy on the sidewalk or an entire state or country. It's just a matter of degree and whether they do the violence first-hand or hire out.
One response fits all.

Anonymous said...

Headline news:
Gunman attacks Unitarian Universalist Church, kills 2, injuries 5 before being wrestled to the ground:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=5463260&page=1

SamenoKami said...

If it is wrong to defend life using a gun, it is wrong to defend life using sinew and muscle to wrestle a perp. to the ground. Both methods seek to disable an attacker. One is efficient, one isn't.
Why fight at all if you give away your home field advantage to the bad-guy to start off? Yeast-infected pansies will always be toast up against a villain.
Turn the other cheek. Help the guy reload. Heaven forbid you defend you own life.
Let me know how it works out for you.
III

Anonymous said...

So now they know there being hunted and thier panties are in a wad, next step will be Hired Guns

Anonymous said...

Today's news describes the man as a helpful neighbor, but who disliked people different from himself (blacks, gays, women's rights advocates), who thought the government was out to get him; whose wife goes to that church: they were divorced eight years ago; who objected to the church welcoming illegal immigrants, supporting gay rights and setting up a local chapter of the ACLU. Who let his parents force him to attend a church he did not respect even into adulthood; who "needed help but did not get it." Who had 76 more shotgun shells on him for the attack which a letter found in his home said he planned for a week.
In short, a "right-wing anti-government militia gun nut." With one of the most commonly-owned firearms in America.
You can't depend on the System to protect you. You can't depend on the System to respect you if you don't conform.
Get ready for the System to notice... US. Again.

Anonymous said...

His lack of tolerance for others of different persuasions and his violent response seems to actually be more of a left wing attribute, with the exception that he didn't hire it done.

DJK said...

I guess their compromises include sacrificing their own flesh and blood.