this thread<\/a> for a couple days, I think I\u2019ll go buy a gun. \u00a0I don\u2019t own one, but I can see where the threats to liberty are. \u00a0And because of the tone and contempt and self-righteous scorn for gun owners, manipulation of facts, and general Jack Chick style approach to the issue, against most (not all, but most) of the gun owners who have tried to appeal to facts, call bad (even sinful) arguments for what they are, but also try to demonstrate why some solutions might not be good, I\u2019ll give it to the gun owners. \u00a0It\u2019s this style, increasingly popular in some quarters of the Catholic Blogosphere, that has me concerned. \u00a0For the record again, I don\u2019t own a gun. \u00a0But I don\u2019t think dropping inaccurate stats, followed by accusations that anyone disagreeing is a gun nut, stupid, doesn\u2019t care about dead innocents (especially if the innocents are dark skinned since they\u2019re likely racists, too), is the best way to represent the Catholic Faith. \u00a0If it is, then that says more about the Catholic Faith now than we might care to admit.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After following this thread for a couple days, I think I\u2019ll go buy a gun. \u00a0I don\u2019t own one, but I can see where the threats to liberty are. \u00a0And because of the tone and contempt and self-righteous scorn for gun owners, manipulation of facts, and general Jack Chick style approach to the issue, against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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