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Thread #91828   Message #1752535
Posted By: GUEST
04-Jun-06 - 12:12 AM
Thread Name: BS: Suddenly Britain has a knife culture
Subject: RE: BS: Suddenly Britain has a knife culture
I'd have to look up chapter and verse. It's been a while. But yes, Jesus said two were sufficient, which means don't arm yourself to do injury, just to protect your family. Split hairs if you must, but I live in the Bible Belt, and my neighbors follow the Bible, and that's fine with me. They've freely updated the term 'sword' to 'semi-automatic,' and I couldn't feel safer. Zero crime rate. Zero fear. Our only fear is that we might not kill the bastard before he gets back out the window he busted. Then some bleeding heart jury might go through a box of tissues while a psycho-analyst tells them how hard the misunderstood boy had it when he was a whelp. What a world.

Patrick Henry looked at the American constitution and pointed out it had a few flaws, one of the biggest of which was that we could be back under the rule of another insane monarch before long unless we had weapons. Weapons to protect us from government. So we got the Second Amendment.

By the way, Patrick Henry was radicalized when he saw a preacher being flogged for not paying his tuppence or thruppence or whatever to mad old King George for a license to preach. Three days later they dragged the man out again and gave him another chance to pay, he refused, and he was flogged to death. That incident led to Patrick Henry sparking the start of the Revolutionary War, then later to the Bill of Rights. It's amazing what one act, one incident can lead to.

"...and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one." King James Version. Not much interpretting needed for that.