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Which everyone wants to ban<\/a> ever since a Sig Sauer MCX<\/a> semi-automatic rifle was used in the Orlando shooting. \u00a0Which makes perfect sense of course. \u00a0After all, a potentially gay Muslim of Afghani descent with racist tendencies murdered 49 people of predominantly Hispanic heritage at a gay bar while praising the same ISIS that had recently called upon Muslim extremists to murder during Ramadan, and we\u2019ve concluded that American Christian Conservatives are the real threat<\/a>. So hey! \u00a0Why not? \u00a0It\u2019s post-modernity! \u00a0Nothing is real, and truth can get hung about it.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, there are some things called facts which are always worth considering. \u00a0 Over at The American Catholic<\/a>, Donald McClarey has a video by a veteran who seems slightly more in tune with the nuances of firearms than Hillary Clinton or others who are leading the charge against military assault weapon style armaments. <\/p>\n

For my money, I\u2019m willing to sit down and have a discussion over what should be allowed under the Second Amendment. \u00a0I\u2019m also very distrustful of most gun control advocates since virtually nothing they say, including their sneering condescension if not outright hatred of gun owners, convinces me they don\u2019t see this as one small step for banning certain guns, one giant step for rewriting the Bill of Rights<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Nonetheless, the veteran in question is worth listening to. \u00a0His is not Gospel truth. \u00a0It is information and an opinion you simply don\u2019t hear. So use it to balance against the other, credible sources that might disagree. \u00a0You know, the ones who have shown us that it\u2019s American Conservative Christians we should worry about after a radicalized racist Muslim killed 49 people in the name of ISIS. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"