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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Gun in a church

         The incident that really makes me want to have better gun control is actually the accidental shooting here in Florida of a minister's 19 year old daughter in the church itself.  One man was legally buying a handgun from another man.  The two men were in a closet to look at the gun when it accidentally went off.  The bullet went through the wall and shot the lady.  The man buying the gun was her fiance.  No doubt, this was a tragic accident.  But who in the world brings a gun into a church under ANY circumstances?  And had that happened in a mosque or Pagan gathering I am sure there would have been outcries of terrorism, "this is proof these people are violent/satanic/choose your word." But because it happened in a Christian church, the public and the media saw it for what it was, a tragic accident. 
      But I know that I would never want to attend a church that allowed guns through its doors.  I understand that this was a product demonstration for a possible sales transaction. However, this particular product demonstration could have been done somewhere else.  When a gun owner takes his or her gun into a public place he/she is taking the lives of every person in the vicinity into their hands. 

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