At Least 26 Dead in Shooting at Connecticut Elementary School

[F34R]

Originally Posted by rearnakedchoke

come on flo ... i am not ridiculing you ... i am saying, i have been on here for a while now, and between here and the christianity section, it has been said that all things from god is biblical or can be found in the bible, ie homosexuality is wrong, gay marriage is wrong etc .. because it is in the bible ... that is why i am asking about the constitution and the bible ... are all the rights in there traceable to the bible??? i mean, as a canadian i can say that universal health care is my god given right ... i mean, i can say that all i want, but i doubt i can find any biblical sense to say it is god given .. nate provided a quote about jesus asking for people to get swords ... but jesus also said he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword when one of his apostles was seemingly defending jesus ...

I already explained it quite clearly...

The Constitution isn't necessarily something from the bible. The Bill of Rights is included so that the Government understands that they aren't able to "take away" rights given by God. I'm not sure why you don't understand that concept.

[Bonnie]

Originally Posted by Neezar

I'm going to pick Benjamin Wheeler.

Do you know what you want to do to remember him?


I read this in an article where his grandma and grandpa were sharing things about Ben:

"He always blew us kisses and he would say 'Catch it and put it in your heart,'" she said.

[NateR]

Originally Posted by F34R

I already explained it quite clearly...

The Constitution isn't necessarily something from the bible. The Bill of Rights is included so that the Government understands that they aren't able to "take away" rights given by God. I'm not sure why you don't understand that concept.

That's exactly it. The original philosophy behind American government was that GOD is the source of all human rights. Thus no human government or leader had the authority to take those rights away for ANY reason. Government works best when it is subject to the will of the people and those people are subject to the will of GOD.

If government is the source of human rights, then government can take those rights away anytime it wants to. Thus, the people become nothing more than subjects of the government. That's the recipe for tyranny.

[TexasRN]

Originally Posted by Neezar

I'm going to pick Benjamin Wheeler.

That's really nice of you and your boys to do this. I was reading in my local newspaper about all of the toys and money being donated to the town. There is a general store there that was receiving phone calls from people all over the country who were giving their credit card numbers to pay for the next $500 of groceries, and one paid for a much higher amount. The outpouring of love on this town just goes to show that there are still good people in the world.

I wonder sometimes about how our world today compares to the world just prior to the flood. God looked over the world and found only Noah and his family worthy of saving. What does He see when he looks at us now? I'd like to think He sees people who are flawed but who are still trying their best to show love and kindness.


~Amy

[Neezar]

Originally Posted by Bonnie

Do you know what you want to do to remember him?


I read this in an article where his grandma and grandpa were sharing things about Ben:

Thank you for sharing that Bonnie.

[F34R]

http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/20...n-gun-control/
It's a decently long read, but well worth the time.

Here's the end conclusion:

In conclusion, basically it doesn’t really matter what something you pick when some politician or pundit starts screaming we’ve got to do something, because in reality, most of them already know a lot of what I listed above. The ones who are walking around with their security details of well-armed men in their well-guarded government buildings really don’t care about actually stopping mass shooters or bad guys, they care about giving themselves more power and increasing their control.

If a bad guy used a gun with a big magazine, ban magazines. If instead he used more guns, ban owning multiple guns. If he used a more powerful gun with less shots, ban powerful guns. If he used hollowpoints, ban hollowpoints. (which I didn’t get into, but once again, there’s a reason everybody who might have to shoot somebody uses them). If he ignored some Gun Free Zone, make more places Gun Free Zones. If he killed a bunch of innocents, make sure you disarm the innocents even harder for next time. Just in case, let’s ban other guns that weren’t even involved in any crimes, just because they’re too big, too small, too ugly, too cute, too long, too short, too fat, too thin, (and if you think I’m joking I can point out a law or proposed law for each of those) but most of all ban anything which makes some politician irrationally afraid, which luckily, is pretty much everything.

[Tyburn]

[Tyburn]

You have NO GOD-Given Rights. Everything, EVERYTHING extended to you by the Almighty is an absolute gift. How DARE you think that He OWES you anything!?

You are a Sinner. You do NOT have the "GOD-Given" Right to have a Firearm. You have NO GOD Given Rights Period. You do NOT measure up to His Law. You have NO power to barter with Christ.

He Commands. You Follow. Its about as simple as that...and if you err from His Ways...well, Frankly...its your funneral

[Play The Man]

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/ev...s-century.html

Mark Steyn: Vain search for meaning in massacre
The infanticidal maniac of Sandy Hook was merely conscripting grade-school extras for a hollow, hyper-narcissistic act of public suicide.


By MARK STEYN

"Lullay, Thou little tiny Child
By by, lully, lullay..."

The 16th-century Coventry Carol, a mother's lament for her lost son, is the only song of the season about the other children of Christmas – the first-born of Bethlehem, slaughtered on Herod's orders after the Magi brought him the not-so-glad tidings that an infant of that city would grow up to be King of the Jews. As Matthew tells it, even in a story of miraculous birth, in the midst of life is death. The Massacre of the Innocents loomed large over the Christian imagination: in Rubens' two renderings, he fills the canvas with spear-wielding killers, wailing mothers and dead babies, a snapshot, one assumes, of the vaster, bloodier body count beyond the frame. Then a century ago the Catholic Encyclopedia started digging into the numbers. The estimated population of Bethlehem at that time was around a thousand, which would put the toll of first-born sons under the age of 2 murdered by King Herod at approximately 20 – or about the same number of dead children as one school shooting on a December morning in Connecticut. "Every man a king," promised Huey Long. And, if it doesn't quite work out like that, well, every man his own Herod.
Had my child been among the dead of Dec. 14, I don't know that I would ever again trust the contours of the world. The years go by, and you're sitting in a coffee shop with a neighbor, and out of the corner of your eye a guy walks in who looks a little goofy and is maybe muttering to himself: Is he just a harmless oddball – or the prelude to horror? The bedrock of life has been shattered, and ever after you're walking on a wobbling carpet with nothing underneath. For a parent to bury a child offends against the natural order – at least in an age that has conquered childhood mortality. For a parent to bury a child at Christmas taints the day forever, and mocks its meaning.
For those untouched by death this Christmas, someone else's bewildering, shattering turn of fate ought to occasion a little modesty and circumspection. Instead, even by its usual execrable standards, the public discourse post-Newtown has been stupid and contemptible. The Left now seizes on every atrocity as a cudgel to beat whatever happens to be the Right's current hottest brand: Tucson, Arizona, was something to do with Sarah Palin's use of metaphor and other common literary devices – or "toxic rhetoric," as Paul Krugman put it; Aurora, Colorado, was something to do with the Tea Party, according to Brian Ross of ABC News. Since the humiliations of November, the Right no longer has any hot brands, so this time round the biens pensants have fallen back on "gun culture." Dimwit hacks bandy terms like "assault weapon," "assault rifle," "semi-automatic" and "automatic weapon" in endlessly interchangeable but ever more terrifying accumulations of high-tech state-of-the-art killing power. As the comedian Andy Borowitz tweeted, "When the 2nd Amendment was written the most lethal gun available was the musket."
Actually, the semiautomatic is a 19th century technology, first produced in 1885. That's just under half-a-century after the death of Madison, the Second Amendment's author, and rather nearer to the Founding Fathers' time than our own. And the founders were under fewer illusions about the fragility of society than Hollywood funnymen: on July 25, 1764, four Lenape Indians walked into a one-room schoolhouse in colonial Pennsylvania and killed Enoch Brown and ten of his pupils. One child survived, scalped and demented to the end of his days.
Nor am I persuaded by the Right's emphasis on pre-emptive mental-health care. It's true that, if your first reaction on hearing breaking news of this kind is to assume the perpetrator is a male dweeb in his early twenties with poor socialization skills, you're unlikely to be wrong. But, in a society with ever fewer behavioral norms, who's to say what's odd? On 9/11, the agent at the check-in desk reckoned Mohammed Atta and his chums were a bit strange but banished the thought as shameful and discriminatory. In a politically correct world, vigilance is a fool's errand. The US Airways cabin crew who got the "flying imams" bounced from a Minneapolis plane for flamboyantly, intimidatingly wacky behavior (praying loudly, fanning out to occupy all the exit rows, asking for seatbelt extenders they didn't need) wound up in sensitivity-training hell. If a lesbian thinks dragging your wife around in a head-to-toe body-bag is kinda weird, she's being "Islamophobic." If a Muslim thinks taking breast hormones and amputating your penis is a little off, he's "transphobic." These very terms make the point that, in our society, finding somebody else odd is itself a form of mental illness. In an unmoored age, what's not odd? Once upon a time, TV viewers from distant states descending on a Connecticut town to attend multiple funerals of children they don't know might have struck some of us as, at best, unseemly and, at worst, deeply creepy – a Feast of the Holy Innocents, so to speak.
OK, what about restricting it to wishing murderous ill upon someone? In her own response to the Sandy Hook slaughter, the novelist Joyce Carol Oates tweeted that hopes for gun control would be greatly advanced "if sizable numbers of NRA members become gun-victims." Who's to know when violent fantasies on social media prefigure a loner getting ready to mow down the kindergarten or just a critically acclaimed liberal novelist amusing her friends before the PEN Awards cocktail party? As it is, in American schools, mental-health referral for "oppositional defiance disorder" and the like is a bureaucratic coding racket designed to access federal gravy. Absent widely accepted cultural enforcers, any legislative reforms would quickly decay into just another capricious boondoggle.
It would not be imprudent to expect that an ever-broker America, with more divorce, fewer fathers, the abolition of almost all social restraints and a revoltingly desensitized culture, will produce more young men who fall through the cracks. But, in the face of murder as extraordinarily wicked as that of Newtown, we should know enough to pause before reaching for our usual tired tropes. So I will save my own personal theories, no doubt as ignorant and irrelevant as everybody else's, until after Christmas – except to note that the media's stampede for meaning in massacre this past week overlooks the obvious: that the central meaning of these acts is that they are without meaning. Herod and the Pennsylvania Indians murdered children in pursuit of crude political goals; the infanticidal maniac of Sandy Hook was merely conscripting grade-school extras for a hollow act of public suicide. Like most mass shootings, his was an exercise in hyper-narcissism – 19th century technology in the service of a very contemporary sensibility.
Meanwhile, the atheists have put up a new poster in Times Square: Underneath a picture of Santa, "Keep the Merry"; underneath a picture of Christ, "Dump the Myth." But in our time even Christians have dumped a lot of the myth while keeping the merry: Jesus, lambs, shepherds, yes; the slaughtered innocents of Bethlehem, kind of a downer. If the Christmas story is a myth, it's a perfectly constructed one, rooting the Savior's divinity in the miracle of His birth but unblinkered, in Matthew's account of Herod's response, about man's darker impulses:
"Then woe is me
Poor Child, for Thee
And ever mourn and may
For Thy parting
Nor say nor sing
By by, lully, lullay."

[NateR]

Originally Posted by Tyburn

You have NO GOD-Given Rights. Everything, EVERYTHING extended to you by the Almighty is an absolute gift. How DARE you think that He OWES you anything!?

You are a Sinner. You do NOT have the "GOD-Given" Right to have a Firearm. You have NO GOD Given Rights Period. You do NOT measure up to His Law. You have NO power to barter with Christ.

He Commands. You Follow. Its about as simple as that...and if you err from His Ways...well, Frankly...its your funneral

Well, congrats on totally missing the point.

Nobody is saying that GOD owes us anything. We are simply saying that the government has no authority to take away rights that GOD has granted. GOD can take those rights (or our lives) away anytime He wants and the Bible is pretty clear that He often does; but that's His prerogative, not the government's.