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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGun Lobbyist Larry Pratt Says Guns Were in the Bible and God is 'Judging' Unarmed Americans
Gun Owners of America Executive Director Larry Pratt recently warned unarmed Americans that he had found firearms in the Bible, and that was proof that God was "judging" unarmed Americans and "blessing" the gun owners.
In video obtained by Right Wing Watch of Pratt speaking to at an Oklahoma Second Amendment Association breakfast sponsored by the Tulsa 912 Project earlier this month, he argued that gun control laws were a way that "we will know we are under God's judgement."
He pointed to a story in the Book of Samuel, where only two men in Israel had a sword "as a result of their sinfulness."
"Finally in his mercy, God enables them to win in a battle and rearm," Pratt explained. "But that must have been one nasty battle, to go into battle with with only two guys with a gun! And everybody else empty handed. So, I would submit that we should not go into battle empty handed."
"But the only way to avoid that is to be on our knees and to be asking for God's pleasure," he added. "If the country comes back to the Lord -- as he told Solomon in that great prayer -- then he will repent of what he's done to the country, he will heal the land, restore it and put his blessing upon it."
"And we should be praying that we will all be able to go around armed because that will be one outward indicator that we have God's blessing."
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Gun Lobbyist Larry Pratt Says Guns Were in the Bible and God is 'Judging' Unarmed Americans (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Nov 2013
OP
I don't know what to feel more shame about This a$$ who is talking this crap OR the people who
diabeticman
Nov 2013
#1
Jesus carried an AR-15 on a TRex while taking money from the poor and giving to the rich.
neverforget
Nov 2013
#2
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)1. I don't know what to feel more shame about This a$$ who is talking this crap OR the people who
are going to believe this crap and start repeating it.
neverforget
(9,436 posts)2. Jesus carried an AR-15 on a TRex while taking money from the poor and giving to the rich.
He was also born in America and said "greed is good".
If you're going to make shit up, you might as well go all out.
catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)3. Wait! If I'm asking for God"s pleasure...
Shouldn't I stand up and God get on his knees???
Enrique
(27,461 posts)4. also the Second Commandment
thou shalt not restrict the right to bear arms.
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)5. "...be on our knees and to be asking for God's pleasure..."??????
Well, at least he's all for that kind of stuff!
safeinOhio
(32,676 posts)6. Another damn
Loop-hole.
Initech
(100,075 posts)7. I knoweth what thou art thinking: "Dost thou prayeth six times or only five?"
Lancero
(3,003 posts)9. Maketh mine day, heretic
Initech
(100,075 posts)10. Dost thou feel lucky , well doeth you, punk?
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)8. It was a typo
David killed Goliath with a Glock, not a rock.
Paladin
(28,257 posts)11. Genuinely sick stuff.
Whenever you think the gun militancy movement has bottomed out, something like this comes to light.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)12. "And thus did the Lord bust an almighty cap in the ass of the Pharisees,
and the people of Galilee saw then that He had Stood His Ground, and it was good."
petronius
(26,602 posts)13. I always figured that whenever it talked about the 'rod' of Moses, it
was just an archaic word for 'gat.' And that loaves-and-fishes bit is obviously a euphemism for magazine capacity (i..e, more is better, but a skilled user can do a lot with just a little ammo). Really, when you look closely, pretty much the whole book is about guns (and pit bulls)...
nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)14. I found evidence of Larry Pratt in the Bible.
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool. - Proverbs 26:1