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If Ukraine had our military, it would have had no use whatever for our "liberal gun policies". You're presenting a false scenario.

No, it wouldn't. All it would require is a system similar to motor vehicle licensing; with testing that includes safety, proficiency, legal understanding of use and responsibility, and cognitive ability. And yes, some background checking, too. For example. If we denied a license to own, use...

Nowhere does it say anything of the sort. In fact, it refers to a REGULATED citizen's militia. Regulated by whom? ... The government, of course. And even that was referring to a nation that had no standing military. Also, in a democracy YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT. The whole structure of U.S...

Only if the insults in question were meant to be strong and effective. :) Around here, it seems they are almost always meant to deflect the conversation when one can't effectively respond to it, and to try and re-establish one's delusions of dominance and superiority.

Clearly, we do not. Because obviously irresponsible people are buying guns every day and then killing people with them. The guy in Texas was an obviously dangerous nut-job, and everyone around him knew it. The guy in New York, likewise. But we have no actual mechanisms in place to discover this...

It's never been about outlawing guns. That's just the BS the gun lobby and the NRA tells the idiots to keep them all riled up and "agin it!" What it's about is putting regulatory measures in place to keep those who are unlikely to be able to have and use guns responsibly from getting them. It's...

I do forgive. And anyway, I'm not insulted. The attempts around here are weak and of no consequence. So I disengage when I can see that my antagonist can't meaningfully interact any further.

What a weirdly rude and insulting culture this site fosters.

Thinking we're right doesn't make us right, no matter how intently we think it. And because this is ALWAYS so, my self-assumed righteousness does not EVER extend beyond me. And if I try to force it into the reality of others, I become an agent not only of the abuse of others, but an agent in...

You are not God. No one needs to come to you and repent.

"Lord, how many times should we forgive? ... Seven times seventy times."

The NRA promotes gun insanity on behalf of the manufacturers. "Freedom = guns". "Manhood = guns". "Self-empowerment = guns". Guns used to be just necessary tools. Now, thanks to the NRA, they are totems for ideology, and cultural signifiers. And millions of morons that have no need for nor...

How about "ardent", "devout", "fully convicted", "fully committed", etc.,. These terms keep your religiosity personal, internal, between you and God. They are also words that would tend to be used by others to describe someone. In this case, you. And isn't that really how you would want to...

Yes. Because we are not perfect, and we are not God. We also need to be forgiven even when we're too stupid or stubborn to repent. The law as understood by religious zealots? Absolutely. Mayhem, death, and disaster, every time.

Of course it is. None of us reach the level of spiritual perfection that is Christ. The best we can do is try, and repent when we fail. It's why forgiveness is tantamount to Christianity. And why refusing to forgive others for their sins only condemns us of our own. And greed into righteous...

Of course they aren't. Neither is the word "liberal". Or the word "forgiveness". Yet the religious zealot seems to imagine that these words refer to conditions that are anathema to their idea of God. You don't seem to agree with them even though you keep referring to yourself as a zealot. Yet...

Epic fail, then. Clearly.

Did Jesus tell you to hate on artists, too? I musta missed that quote.

We're ALL posers calling ourselves Christians, to some degree. Because not one of us can live up to that challenge, fully. The Christians that lynched blacks just a few decades ago found their justification in the Bible, and went to their churches every Sunday and believed they loved God just as...

Why are you trying to accuse yourself?