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My wife examines the problem of moral rot in America:
Sometimes, given America's Judeo-Christian heritage, it's easy to equate America with a kind of "Israel model": We were, at our inception, chosen by God to do His work in the world and are still commanded to do so.
The patriotic songs I sang as a child in the 60's combined faith in God with a love of our country. In school, we sang "God of Our Fathers," "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and "America the Beautiful."
Our country put a man on the moon. Our government fought poverty with housing projects and it was no longer acceptable to pollute the skies, rivers and lakes. Racism was no longer funny or acceptable. Women demanded an equal seat at the table and largely got it.
Growing up when I did, it looked like America cared about progress--trying to right the wrongs of the past, and doing so in a timely and just way. We also were in a war in a country I had never heard of, and it was becoming more and more obvious that we needed to remove our troops. It divided us and made us angry with each other, while body bag after body bag was delivered stateside and devastated families had to cope with their loss.
A perfect country? No.
But to quote Ayatollah Khomeini, a leader in Iran, we weren't the "great Satan" either....
So, if we see ourselves as modelled on Israel in the Hebrew Scriptures, then Josiah, the last good king of Judah before the Babylonian exile, has a valuable lesson for us. If, as I do, believe God saves people, not nations, then these passages of Scripture hold valuable lessons for us.
God expects His people, in whatever nation they are in, to act like citizens of the Kingdom of God.
Josiah was only eight years old when he assumed the throne of "his father David." He is the last "godly king of the Davidic line prior to the exile." [1] Unlike many of his royal predecessors, "he did right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father David, not turning to the right or to the left." (2 Kings 22:2)
No compromise. He followed God. ..
If you haven't already, please note the parallel to America. God's Word is still the standard, and it points to how far we have fallen away from what God expects out of those who call upon His name.
But we have to read it. Understand it. Apply it. ...
He cleaned house. He didn't just decry the practices, but got rid of all the things that allowed those practices to go on and he removed all the people who supervised the practices.
The prophetess Huldah told Josiah that he would die before the terrible day of judgment would fall on Judah. God spared Josiah the pain of watching his country destroyed. God honored Josiah's attempt to redirect his country back to the covenant and serving Him alone.
If we are like Josiah, and we really seek God and obey what is in His Word, will God's judgment be stayed? God judges nations if they flagrantly disobey His moral order. It's not that the nation is somehow special or chosen, but He will eventually judge sin in individuals and in nations. But He also will renew, revive and restore His people when they seek His face and repent.
Even though Josiah was sincere and obedient, God did judge Judah, because after him, several kings "did evil in the eyes of the LORD."
I am not sure I wantb to compare Trump to Josiah. He might well be successful in removing or at least modern idols: sexual mutilation of children; men (excuse me, women with male sexual organs) in women's locker rooms and sororities; promoting racial hatred through DEI. We are going to have to do what we can to undo 40 years of moral rot.
If some of them take to laws that seem to not be gun-relaed, do not worry; many are laws cited by their "experts" and are indeed irrelevant. My proof reader is getting 403 errors and I want to know why.
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Most American History textbooks make a point of how Jefferson's Northwest Ordinance (1787) banned slavery north of the Ohio River. While checking:
1799 Miss. Laws 113, A Law For The Regulation Of Slaves
That no slave shall keep or carry any gun , powder , shot , club ,
or other weapon whatsoever, offensive , or defensive , defensive
except the tools given him to work with , or that he weapons.
is ordered by his master , mistress , or overseer...
It does indeed appear in Statutes of the Missisippi Territory (1807) as part of A Law For The Regulation Of Slaves.
When I found it referenced in The Territorial Papers of the United States v.5 1798-1817 (1937)
Whereas the Ordinance of Congress passed the 13th day of July
1787. Entitled "An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory
of the United States north West of the river Ohio " hath been applied
to the Government of the Mississippi Territory : Whereby the Governor
and Judges of the said Territory or a majority of them are
authorised to adopt, and publish in the said Territory such Laws of
the Original States , Civil and Criminal , as may be necessary , and best
suited to the circumstances of the said Territory , and report them to
Congress from time to time, which laws shall be in force in the district
or Territory until the organization of the general assembly therein ,
unless disapproved of by Congress , but afterwards the legislature
shall have authority to alter them as they shall think fit....Therefore
disagreed
After the word Assembled, strike out the residue of the resolution
and insert "That all the acts of the said Governor and Judges, purporting
to be the laws enacted by the said Governor and Judges of
the Mississippi Territory from the commencment of the Government
thereof until the 30 day of June 1799--be, and the same are hereby,
disapproved of by Congress.
including A Law For The Regulation Of Slaves
The language is desparately unclear. It appears Congress at least briefly discussed applying the Northwest Ordinance's slavery prohibition to the Deep South.
Law enforcement officials investigating the assassination attempt on Donald Trump told lawmakers Wednesday that 20 minutes passed between the time U.S. Secret Service snipers first spotted the gunman on a rooftop and the time shots were fired at the former president, according to several law enforcement officials and lawmakers briefed on the matter.
Officials said the snipers spotted the suspect, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, on the roof of a building outside the security zone at the rally Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, at 5:52 p.m. ET. The shooting happened at 6:12 p.m. ET, 20 minutes later, the sources said.
In the days since the shooting, the Secret Service has come under scrutiny for its response to the assassination attempt and the agency's director, Kimberly Cheatle, has been subpoenaed to testify before Congress. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said she "welcomes the opportunity to testify."
"Gee, I see a guy with a rifle over there. Is he hunting?"
"Who knows?"
"Should we tell Trump not to go on the stage?"
"That's a hard decision."
'The Big Tech giant disbanded the DEI team at the beginning of the month due to “changing business needs,” according to a July 1 email obtained by Business Insider.'
'Greg Smith said the man had crawled on top of a building just outside the event in Butler County on Friday evening.
'He said he pointed the gunman out to police.
"I'm thinking to myself 'Why is Trump still speaking, why have they not pulled him off the stage'... the next thing you know, five shots ring out."
The set of Democrats who think he should reconsider his decision to stay in the race has grown to include aides, operatives and officials tasked with guiding his campaign to victory'
You are doubtless aware of this story from Matthew 14:13-21:
13 When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Hearing of this, the crowds followed him on foot from the towns. 14 When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick.
15 As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.”
16 Jesus replied, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.”
17 “We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered.
18 “Bring them here to me,” he said. 19 And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. 20 They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. 21 The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.
Of course the New Testament contains other miracles: healing the sick, giving sight to the blind, curing lepers, the lame and the deaf.
Why am I bringing this up? Our pastor a couple weeks back preached how Matthew 3:1-2:
In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
Many Christians believe that the Kingdom of Heaven is not at the end of the age, but that Christians are obligated to bring it into effect here and now. Does this seem odd to you?
How recently did famine carry away millions of people per year? Feeding the 5000 is nothing compared to the last two centuries.
How many victims of polio do we still have walking with a limp (at best)? How many lepers are still slowly being disfigured? How many severely ill people recover from heart attacks and lead productive, joyful lives? (Okay, I am going in tomorrow for a pulmonary function test to, I hope, resolve my shortwindedness.) Think of all the surgeries performed before anesthesia and antisepsis. Think of replacing a defective aortic valve. Is that not a miracle 2000 years ago? We do not have holy men going around healing the sick; we have systems of healthcare that alleviate suffering instead. (I am ignoring frauds like Benny Hinn.)
As many of you already know, poverty worldwide has fallen substantially over the last couple decades. The Judaeo-Christian legacy in the West has created a prosperity and reduced individual misery on a scale unimaginable in Jesus' time.
It has not all been progress. Slavery was a great evil of the Western world. When enough consciences were pricked by evangelists the West did not simply abolish slavery in the West (sometimes at enormous costs in lives and capital) but actively suppressed slavery elsewhere. War is bad--unless you are a Jew or Gypsy in Europe or Chinese in the Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
The situation is not perfect, but Christians are obligated to make it so.
"Bradley Wendt, who led the three-man Adair Police Department, also owned a gun store and was licensed to buy and sell machine guns. He was indicted in 2022 on charges that he had lied to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on forms needed to obtain approval for such transactions, falsely claiming that guns would be sold for use by, or demonstration to, the police department."
He tried to buy a mini gun. Somehow, I am having trouble imagining for what a small town Iowa police department needs that. He watched Children of the Corn too many times?
'Former Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo and former school police officer Adrian Gonzales were named in the indictments, which represent the first criminal charges filed in the school massacre."
NBC News is reporting charges of child abandonment and neglect.
In a comprehensive new study, researchers found that the population of monument-carvers could not possibly have been big enough to collapse under the demands placed on their environment, as has previously been suggested.
"The myth of this so-called Rapa Nui "ecocide" – held up for decades as a cautionary tale about overexploitation of natural resources – should be firmly relegated to the bin of outdated theories, scientists now say.
'This finding is just the latest in a mounting body of evidence that the Pacific Islander population's decline had nothing to do with their way of living.
"In fact, the collapse so soon after European contact in the 1700s probably had more to do with the slave trade, enforced migration, and introduced pathogens."
This is consistent with whst happened in other isolated populations at first contact. Diseases thst were very lethal to Europeans and spent centuries removing from the gene pool devastated populations with no previous exposure.
These are the ones that came to my attention:
Elisjsha Dicken. 2022, at Greenwood, Indiana mall "neutralized" a guy who fired 24b rounds from an AR-15.
Also in 2022:
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A woman in West Virginia fatally shot a man who began firing an AR-15-style rifle into a crowd of people that had gathered for a party, authorities said.
Jeanne Assam stopped the New Life Church mass murderer in 2007.
Clackamas Mall Shooter Faced Shopper With Concealed Weapon Permit
I have a vague memory of a mass murder interrupted at a barbecue place in Kansas City but I cannot find it. Do any of you have more examples?
Thank you all. I found enough to demonstrate their "expert" is not.
"The university’s four campuses have been working with donors to revise scholarships that exclude white students, and in some cases Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans, to ensure they comply with federal law."
This has been a source of frustration for me since I graduated high school and discovered that because I was white and poor, I was ineligible for some scholarships. Next thing you know, universities may start admissions based on merit not race.
As some comments observed, if you want to make sure your money goes to a black student, give the money directly, and forgo the income tax deduction for your charitable contribution. And more of the money will end up with the student.
This Feb. 23, 2024 Firearms NewsFeb. 23, 2024 Firearms News article opens so well:
The SITES Spectre HC is what would happen if a Glock pistol had a baby with an Uzi submachine gun and that baby was stolen from the hospital and raised in Finland by a gang of art deco biker thugs. Radical and innovative yet in its semiauto form grievously flawed, the Spectre HC is as ugly as Yasser Arafat first thing in the morning after a hard night out on the town.
I am researching Washuington State mass murders.
Since 2006, there
have been 17 mass murders in Washington State: two by arson; one by stabbing, two
with guns unknown, one using handgun and shotgun, three described only as
handgun, three described as semiauto handguns, three described as rifle. Of those three rifle incidents, one was
reported as a “hunting-style” rifle,[1]
another involved a .22 rifle.[2]
[1] Steph
Solis, What
We Know About Arcan Cetin, Washington State Mall Shooting Suspect,
USA Today, Sep. 25, 2016, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/09/25/who-is-arcan-cetin-washington-state-cascade-mall-shooting/91075114/,
last accessed June 4, 2024.
[2] Phil
Ferolito, New Trial
Sought For Convicted Murderer James Cloud In Yakama Reservation Mass Murder,
Yakima Herald-Republic,
2022, https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/new-trial-sought-for-convicted-murderer-james-cloud-in-yakama-reservation-mass-murder/article_6e68244d-0948-5a00-8c2c-7d9aa7e1be9f.html,
last accessed June 4, 2024.
I am trying to find news coverage that identifies the rifle used in "After a fight with his wife, James Harrison fatally shot his five children, aged 7 to 16, in the middle of the night and then killed himself the next morning. According to police reports, his wife was involved with another man and was planning to leave him. " Pierce County, 4/4/2009.
It turns out that the Washington AW ban includes only one handgun, and that seems to appear more in videogames than real, life: Spectre M4 or HC.
Can you find me manufacturer's or importer's links to these weapons? I need to know which are rifles and which are shotguns.
AK-47 in all forms |
AK-74 in all forms |
Algimec AGM-1 type semiautomatic |
American Arms Spectre da semiautomatic carbine |
AR15, M16, or M4 in all forms |
AR 180 type semiautomatic |
Argentine L.S.R. semiautomatic |
Australian Automatic |
Auto-Ordnance Thompson M1 and 1927 semiautomatics |
Barrett .50 cal light semiautomatic |
Barrett .50 cal M87 |
Barrett .50 cal M107A1 |
Barrett REC7 |
Beretta AR70/S70 type semiautomatic |
Bushmaster Carbon 15 |
Bushmaster ACR |
Bushmaster XM-15 |
Bushmaster MOE |
Calico models M100 and M900 |
CETME Sporter |
CIS SR 88 type semiautomatic |
Colt CAR 15 |
Daewoo K-1 |
Daewoo K-2 |
Dragunov semiautomatic |
Fabrique Nationale FAL in all forms |
Fabrique Nationale F2000 |
Fabrique Nationale L1A1 Sporter |
Fabrique Nationale M249S |
Fabrique Nationale PS90 |
Fabrique Nationale SCAR |
FAMAS .223 semiautomatic |
Galil |
Heckler & Koch G3 in all forms |
Heckler & Koch HK-41/91 |
Heckler & Koch HK-43/93 |
Heckler & Koch HK94A2/3 |
Heckler & Koch MP-5 in all forms |
Heckler & Koch PSG-1 |
Heckler & Koch SL8 |
Heckler & Koch UMP |
Manchester Arms Commando MK-45 |
Manchester Arms MK-9 |
SAR-4800 |
SIG AMT SG510 in all forms |
SIG SG550 in all forms |
SKS |
Spectre M4 |
Springfield Armory BM-59 |
Springfield Armory G3 |
Springfield Armory SAR-8 |
Springfield Armory SAR-48 |
Springfield Armory SAR-3 |
Springfield Armory M-21 sniper |
Springfield Armory M1A |
Smith & Wesson M&P 15 |
Sterling Mk 1 |
Sterling Mk 6/7 |
Steyr AUG |
TNW M230 |
FAMAS F11 |
Uzi 9mm carbine/rifle |
