Mark Steyn: God and Guns: The only healthy way to fly.

[EveningStar]

Mark Steyn
National Review Online
April 19, 2008

Our lesson today comes from the songwriter Frank Loesser: “Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition.”
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[BarkleUSA]

RE:
I think a healthy society needs both God and guns: it benefits from a belief in some kind of higher purpose to life on earth, and it requires a self-reliant citizenry. If you lack either of those twin props, you wind up with today’s Europe — a present-tense Eutopia mired in fatalism. A while back, I was struck by the words of Oscar van den Boogaard, a Dutch gay humanist (which is pretty much the trifecta of Eurocool). Reflecting on the Continent’s accelerating Islamification, he concluded that the jig was up for the Europe he loved, but what could he do? “I am not a warrior, but who is?” he shrugged. “I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it.”


The movement to ban God and guns has been making progress (in the same way a paluge makes progress) - but there are recent signs of hope, for example stores that forbid employees from saying "Merry CHRISTmas" were exposed and boycotted. And the recent Supreme Court decision on gun control indicates that more on the court had read the 2nd Amendment then before Bush's appointments.

There can be no greater example of the danger of secularism and gun control then Europe.

America - home of the free BECAUSE of the brave.

[Rhino]

“I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it.”

That sure fits a lot of people I know.