How do you feel about gun control?

Good Sermon, Maverick!

My pastor preaches the same things. Too bad too many pulpits of all denominations (including Baptist) are silent on these issues.

 

Assuming that people in the U.S dont want any form of gun control, What are you going to do so that you can stop shootings in your schools.

 

I don't know about the rest but I pray for my kid's school, its teachers, and their combined safety. I pray that Christ will reach the lost ones there. I witness to the kids whenever I get a chance. You know when the school asks me to drive my minivan to help carry the kids on a field trip. During the ride they are all mine. I can play Christian music on the radio and guide their conversations toward the Lord. It really helps that several of the kids are saved and bold in their witness as well.

Again, the problem here is not guns. The problem is sin. The problem is lost parents raising lost kids in a lost world. We have got to give them Jesus. If we do that everything else will fall into line.

 

How about working to take guns out of the hands of the deranged, rather than law abiding citizens for starters.

Mike

 

I'm not by any means an expert, but I do know a little and I thought it didn't sound right when I heard the news refer to as a .223

Thanks for answering that for me.

Mike

 

Granted. I don't have a problems with today's term for "militia". What I have a problem with is the concern about "well regulated". (in other words, the allowing of the state to regulate via statue the keeping and bearing of such arms). The keeping and bearing of arms is not as much an issue today as is the issue of the keeping and bearing of arms to be regulated. There are unfortunately way too many people who think we whould remove the words "well regulated" from the constitution.

 

Um...hate to tell y'all this, but 5.56mm is equivalent to .223 caliber.

Two different standards of measure, similar to comparing inches and centimeters.

http://communities.prodigy.net/sportsrec/gz-556faq.html

 

Actually, guys, I don't know a lot about guns, but the media reported the snipers used the .223 by Bushmaster, if that's the weapon ya'll are discussing:

Bushmaster site

 

Don! So, what you are saying is--a 5.56mm = a .223 caliber? I knew that all along--its just that I ain't no good at Metric measurements. It would be the same as saying a .223 caliber = a 5.56mm??

Maverick! Good sermon, dude! Now I won't have to go to church Sunday--'cause I've been to church here on the BB!!

I heard someone mention on the BB that they wish that more preachers would preach on arming ones self(or something to that matter)--sorry, man! This preacher ain't gonna advocate from the pulpit that you or anyone else should go out and buy a "heater" or that you should apply for a gun permit or even register your hands as a "lethal weapon." I once ran upon one of my elderly widows who was outside in her yard picking Poke salad greens--I noticed she had a "heater" straped on to her hip--looked just like Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke! I asked her "Why the heater?" to which she said--"Oh, just in case I see a snake!" I eased my way on back to the pick-up truck! Didn't want to give any reason for her to believe that I resembled a snake!

Your friend,
Blackbird

 

Yep, Blackbird, that's exactly it.

It's also the same as saying that a 7.62mm round (AK-47 for you movie-goers) is the same as a .308 caliber round (for you hunters).

The M-16 is touted as a 5.56mm because of our alliance with NATO; our NATO allies need to be able to identify our rounds to see if they're compatible with their weapons (i.e., picking up a few rounds in battle and using them in your own weapon).

It's a nice idea, but it rarely works out.

In my prior job in the Air Force, I learned more about the M-16 than I ever wanted to know. Nowadays, however, they're using an M-16A2, which has a couple of more widgets, and I'm not as familiar with.

If that's all it takes to qualify as a potential sniper, I guess I'm waiting for the knock on the door....

 

Shoot !!! Gun control is great ! Its down right hard to hit your target if you can't control your gun.