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What are the religious views of mass public shooters?
A recent study conducted by the Crime Prevention Research Center looks at possible links between religion and violence.
[J]ust over 20 years from the beginning of January 1998 through today, there have been 69 killers committing 66 mass public shootings in the US where at least four people have been killed. Of those attacks, four have been identified as Christians, with just three clearly regular churchgoers…
Muslims make up a slightly disproportionately large share of these attacks. Even though they make up less than one percent of the US population, they account for 8.7% of these killers (6 in total) and more than the number of Christians.
Other killers who are explicitly identified only as “anti-Christian” are about as common as Christians, with three such killers. One of those killers was the 2015 Oregon Community College massacre where the killer shot those who reportedly told him that they were Christian.
While I applaud the work that went into this study, it’s hard for me to believe that any authentic Christian would engage in murder. The term “Christian" has become a check-box default categorical claim in our society, its use propagated by people who don’t understand true belief and the sovereign power of the Holy Spirit. I suspect that people are being lumped into that category without that person ever having personally accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
There are certainly no biblical commands authorizing murder. In fact, murder is strictly prohibited by God (Ex.20:13).
While every true Christian is, and always will be, a sinner, the presence of the Holy Spirit in their life ensures the remission of sin along with having absolute power over any and all demonic activity (Acts 2:38). There is plenty of supportive context for these biblical facts.
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The Armed Citizen
FBI Releases Pro-2nd Amendment Statement
A report released by the FBI in April underlined the necessity of the Second Amendment, pointing out that nearly half of the incidents in which active shooters were confronted by citizens, the incident ended with an armed citizen successfully stopping the shooter.
/Hank Berrien at The Dailywire
Weather
The 2018 Tropical Storm Season
Has begun…. Early:
A broad area of low pressure has developed over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, in association with an upper-level low pressure system, and this area of disturbed weather is expected to drift slowly northward and stall out off the coast of the Florida Panhandle on Tuesday. By Wednesday, the low is expected to be absorbed by a trough of low pressure passing to its north, resulting in the low moving ashore along the Florida Panhandle, on either Wednesday or Thursday. As this low meanders over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico early this week, the system has the potential to gradually acquire tropical characteristics and become warm-cored, potentially becoming a tropical or subtropical depression. Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) off the coast of the Florida Panhandle are near 25°C (77°F)—a little cooler than is typically needed to see a tropical depression form, but plenty warm enough to support formation of a subtropical depression. Wind shear over the low was a high 30 – 40 knots on Sunday evening, but was predicted to fall to a moderate 15 – 25 knots by Tuesday.
Like an advance Recon operation, this system is poking around in the GOM looking for an easy path into ‘enemy' territory….
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Culture
What's in a name?
Controversy!
Field & Stream Magazine and Field & Stream Stores are separate, unrelated, entities...
Field & Stream—the magazine (since 1895) would like to make it clear that they have no connection to Field & Stream—the stores (since 2011), and especially to the latter's (Dick's Sporting Goods) anti civil-rights stance regarding firearms and ammunition.
Here's to your good reading while you avoid controversy!
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Law and Order
'Repel Boarders!'
Stories like this one make fools out of people who say that firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizen’s are useless for protecting lives and property.
Laura Williams was awakened Tuesday morning by a ringing doorbell.
"I went to the door and just kind of opened it and there was an older man standing at my front door with a shovel and he asked for a lady's name and I said ‘there's no one here by that name I'm sorry, you're at the wrong house, she doesn't live here,’” Williams said.
The man left, but Williams says she felt uncomfortable....
"I looked out and he was standing at the opening of the woods with a shovel still in his hand and he kept looking back and looking, I said ‘no this is not going to go down like this.’".....
Williams ran to the other side of her house where [her daughter] Hannah was asleep.
“I woke her up and I said ‘go to my bedroom, get the dogs and let's go’ because that's where we keep our guns in our house."
"No sooner did we get to the bedroom and shut the door, he was kicking in the front door and hitting it with the shovel,” Williams said.
Williams got her pistol out of the drawer of a bedside table and confronted the man in the living room while her daughter called 911.
“I had time to grab the revolver and come out the door. So when he came in the shovel was up on his shoulder, he was headed straight towards us,” she said.
"I aimed it at him and said ‘if you take one more step I'll kill you.’"
The man stopped, mumbled some words and turned to leave.
As he walked out the door he turned to back to Williams.
“He said 'Well all y'all need to know is y'all need to leave me the F alone,' and I said ‘I don't even know you, get out of my house, ‘" Williams said....
Deputies arrived 14 minutes later.... They found [the intruder] in a nearby trailer park.
If the victim had not had a gun, the intruder probably would have not only been able to overpower the victim, but would have had at least 14 minutes to inflict whatever evil that he had in mind.
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