Ep 3 ｜ Guns, Government & God： Why I Fight for 2A
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Summary
In light of the "March for Our Lives" protests, Allie Stuckey discusses the importance of the Second Amendment and the need for a right to bear arms. She explains why guns are so important to her and why she supports them.
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Welcome back to Relatable, everyone, where I, your host, Allie Stuckey, discuss the most
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relevant topics from a conservative, millennial, and biblical perspective.
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Today, we are going to talk about, drumroll please, guns, everyone's favorite topic.
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For those of you who don't know, this podcast is a part of CRTV.com, where you can find me
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as well as a bunch of other conservative commentators and where I post several videos every week.
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So, I asked my social media followers over the weekend what you all would like me to
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discuss on this week's podcast, and I got a lot of great suggestions.
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There are literally so many things that I want to talk about today.
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I, like, I really want to talk about that really stupid and absurd and irresponsible spending
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bill that makes it hard for me to justify ever voting for another Republican again.
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And I might touch on that at the end of this podcast, might not.
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It might need to be a whole episode for a different day.
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I also want to talk about the California Supreme Court case involving abortion and free speech.
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And many of you asked that we talk about guns, the Second Amendment, and this whole March for
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And in light of the insane tension and the disagreement that surrounds this issue, I thought it would be
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good to try to add some Christian millennial conservative clarity to the conversation.
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First, let me back up and tell you kind of who I am in relation to guns.
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I am not what you would call a gun fanatic, whatever that means, although I don't think that's a bad
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thing if you are, because if you are what people call a gun fanatic, I think that's awesome.
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My husband and I recently became gun owners, and I am right now in the middle of applying
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I didn't really grow up around guns, even though I grew up in Texas, where I'd say guns
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My dad owned guns growing up, but I really never saw them unless he was hunting, which
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So I guess I saw guns and I never really thought about it.
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But honestly, guns weren't really something that we talked about or even thought about growing
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up, and really only in the last few years did my parents start carrying guns, and none
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of my close friends, even right now, carry guns.
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So this whole idea on the left of the Second Amendment, of Second Amendment advocates being
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gun nuts who care more about guns than children is so frustratingly stupid, because it's just
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I care about the right to defend myself however I want to.
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And I care about what that right stands for, which is individual liberty.
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I care about the Second Amendment because I care about liberty, not because I care about
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The only reason guns are at all important to me is because they are the means by which
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I mean, you've probably heard before, there is no First Amendment without the Second Amendment.
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We have no ultimate ability to defend ourselves against a tyrannical government who would wish
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to take away our right to free speech and religious expression and all of that if it
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And this is true of any of our rights, actually.
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They are all protected by the Second Amendment.
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Privacy, unreasonable searches and seizures, etc.
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And I don't mean this in the sense that, like, if we found out that a government official
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spied on our browsing history that we'd get to go to their house and shoot them.
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I mean that in a bigger and, like I said, ultimate sense.
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I mean that a government who wishes to completely subdue its people wouldn't be able to easily
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do that if the people they're trying to subdue are well-armed.
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We would be able to form a militia, even, which is a group of non-professional soldiers,
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and we would be able to take up arms and defend our freedom, theoretically, from the tyranny
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Now, of course, we might not be able to win, but we'd have the ability to fight for our rights
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Now, okay, you might be thinking, that sounds apocalyptic or totally far-fetched.
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We would never have to defend ourselves against the government.
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But for those of you who say that, like, you do realize that's how we all got here, right?
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Like, you do realize that our independence from the tyranny of England was accomplished
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by use of guns, that it was weaponry that allowed us to defeat a global superpower?
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Guns were the means by which we achieved freedom.
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And to people who say, well, that was hundreds of years ago, that's irrelevant today.
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Culture changes, technology changes, but the nature of power and the tyranny that always
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We should fear government overreach and tyrannical rule probably more than ever.
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The only difference between then and now is that they then feared another government,
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The founders knew, though, about the propensity of any central government to take on too much
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They knew the immutable nature of tyranny, which is why they recognize people's God-given
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So just some factoids about the Second Amendment, just in case some of you have forgotten.
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It is the second of the ten amendments to the Constitution, altogether called the Bill of Rights,
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ratified by Congress in 1791, a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a
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The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
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A militia was a group of volunteers, so men from the community who were able to come together
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The idea was that the federal government shouldn't be the only ones to be able to form an army
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Obviously, that part of the Second Amendment has been contested, and that looks a little
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We don't know of very many militias that are formed.
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James Madison was the one to propose the Second Amendment in order to empower the states and
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to quell many of their fears about a too-powerful central government, the spirit being that the
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government would not be allowed to disarm its citizens.
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So when we look at the Second Amendment from that context, it's really hard to argue that
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meant anything other than the idea that citizens should be allowed to protect themselves and
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that the government cannot stomp on that right.
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Nevertheless, there has been a debate on the scope and really the true meaning of the Second
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Amendment literally probably since 1791 because people disagree on what it means to have a regulated
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What does it mean that citizens can keep and bear rights without infringement?
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Um, some, though not really many anymore in the gun control crowd, take the whole regulated
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militia thing to mean that the Second Amendment doesn't necessarily apply to all individual
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citizens, but rather applies to organized military groups.
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Um, obviously, the gun rights crowd points to the line that says literally the right of
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the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
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And they say, no, it clearly includes all individuals.
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And considering the spirit of the creation of the Second Amendment, the fear the states and
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the people had of government tyranny and the oppression of federal force, it's hard to see
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why the Second Amendment would limit the right to bear arms to organized military groups rather
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But still, the debate lives on and is probably a lot more complicated than that.
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Much of the complexity regarding the Second Amendment has to do with Supreme Court rulings on the issue
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that brought up the question of whether or not the Second Amendment is to be upheld by the federal
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government or whether or not it's protected or taken away by state governments.
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And this has to do with the 14th Amendment, which includes a due process clause, which is
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used against the states when it comes to what authority the state has apart from the federal
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For a long time, the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment is not included by the due process
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clause of the 14th Amendment, meaning that it's not a federal issue and so could be limited
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Heller, the court ruled that D.C.'s ban on handguns was unlawful as it infringed on the
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Chicago ruled that your Second Amendment rights are included in the due process clause.
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Therefore, no state can fully infringe upon your right to own a gun.
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Now, obviously, every state has different laws regarding how difficult it is to own or
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But there really is generally no question about whether or not the Second Amendment does
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indeed include an individual's right to possess a firearm, a right that courts have ruled should
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be protected by the federal government per the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.
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But the ongoing debate is, what should the limitations be on this individual rights?
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Now, there are already many laws on the books regarding guns, background checks, limitations
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for the mentally ill, licensing to carry a gun.
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There are age limits for purchasing guns, especially particular kinds of guns.
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But in general, compared to the rest of the world, it's true that our gun laws are pretty
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That is because in the United States, unlike in other countries, we believe that the right
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to defend ourselves how we see fit, as is outlined by the Second Amendment, is a God-given right.
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And in fact, every single one of our rights recognized in the Constitution, the Founders
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And as we conservatives know and believe, if rights are inherent rather than man-made, then
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they cannot be taken away by man or institutions made by men, i.e. the government.
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So all of this to say, that is why I personally fight for the Second Amendment, because it was
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the amendment set up to ensure the protection against the infringement of all of our other
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It is the protection of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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And I also think it's important to note that I don't believe that everyone has to own or
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I think that you can be a freedom-loving, conservative patriot without owning a firearm.
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Second Amendment advocacy means fighting for the choice of people to defend themselves how
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they see fit in fighting against forced defenselessness.
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But unfortunately, this line of thinking is nowhere to be found in most mainstream media
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coverage of the gun debate, and in particular, in the coverage of the March for Our Lives, which
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What we saw were hundreds of thousands of young people across the country with clever, anti-NRA,
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anti-gun signs, pushing apparently for stricter gun control.
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And these protests were depicted as revolutionary, as monumental, as heart-wrenching, as an inarguable
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testament to the cruelty of guns, gun owners, and the NRA.
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Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg are two students at Stoneman Douglas High School who witnessed
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And unfortunately, very unfortunately, they have been turned into media puppets, perhaps by
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And Emma Gonzalez made a speech in which she made waves for standing on stage in silence
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And I won't lie, I watched that, and it was extremely compelling.
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Whether or not I agreed with her argument is kind of irrelevant.
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David Hogg also made a speech defending the right to live.
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And they were all hailed as heroes, as vigilantes, as young leaders on the right side of history,
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showing that, of course, everyone who disagrees with them, well, we are child murderers.
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We are crazed fanatics who care more about guns than kids.
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If you just log on to Twitter, you will see that dichotomy depicted everywhere.
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We are murderers, people who are on the side of gun control.
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But from what I have told you about my perspective on guns,
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do I sound like a crazy person who wants kids dead?
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Do I sound like someone who is so obsessed with AR-15s that I can't possibly give them up?
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I sound like someone who cares about freedom and self-defense and people.
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I probably represent about 99% of Second Amendment advocates.
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Even the 2A supporters I know who are obsessed with guns and genuinely just
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love firearms and gun culture are not what the media is depicting them to be.
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They are moms, they're dads, they're bosses, students, caretakers,
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all different kinds of people who just happen to be passionate about their freedom to defend
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I know rape survivors, assault victims, women who work night shifts and have to walk to their
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cars alone, women training for races that require them running early in the morning.
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These are your average people, people just like you, who would rather not wait around
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until they are the next victim, who would rather take their life and protection into their own
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And these so-called gun fanatics are literally, literally the most responsible people I know.
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If you've ever been to a gun range, you know how incredibly obsessive the trainers are about
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Have you ever been around a gun expert and accidentally pointed an empty gun the wrong way?
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Because law-abiding gun owners know better than anyone else that every time someone makes
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a mistake or makes a bad decision with a gun, their own Second Amendment rights are at stake.
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We who stand up for the Second Amendment are not these heartless gun nuts.
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We are people who want the right to protect ourselves and our families, how we want to protect
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them, and the media and the gun control crowd on the left are demonizing us to drive their
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This entire narrative that gun owners in the NRA, who stands up for the rights of gun owners,
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are to blame for mass shootings is just not accurate.
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Do you know how many people the NRA has murdered?
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Do you know how many people NRA members have murdered?
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In fact, if you remember Sutherland Springs, that shooting down in Texas at a church a few
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months ago, the man who stopped the shooter with his gun was an NRA member.
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It took a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun.
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The only people to blame for mass shootings are the shooters themselves.
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Not the millions of people who own and use guns responsibly.
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Why would we punish everyone for the actions of a few people rather than addressing the
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real problems at hand, like the deadening of morality in this country, the deterioration
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of the family, loneliness, depression, isolation, mental health.
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All these things we know for sure make someone more likely to commit acts of violence on themselves
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And by the way, just a plug here, I've written about these things on my blog, the Conservative
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I've talked about how the deterioration of the family and fatherlessness is linked to
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I won't spend all of my time explaining it right now.
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But I mean, considering all of these things and saying all of this, I am not saying that
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I am completely against any regulation of guns.
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I don't think people with a history of serious mental illness should be able to own a gun as
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long as those specifications of mental illness are clear.
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I don't think criminals should be able to own guns, especially domestic abusers.
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I believe in background checks, even very thorough background checks.
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And these regulations and protocols are already in place in most places.
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And actually, there's one thing that I think that we need to change here in Texas.
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In Texas, if you buy a gun, they do a background check before you can pick it up.
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But if they don't get back to you in three days, then you can pick up the gun.
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I think the background check should have to be completed before you can pick up your gun.
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So I'm not against logical and minimal regulation of guns.
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I simply don't think that making our gun laws stricter and stricter is going to decrease
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Not sure if you knew this or not, but criminals commit crimes.
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They are not hampered by gun-free zones, as we saw when the Bernie Sanders deporter shot
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and nearly killed Republican Congressman Steve Scalise.
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If they were, they wouldn't be out shooting people in the first place.
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They will find a way to get a gun, and they will find a way to break the law.
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And if you look around the world in our most dangerous cities, the ones at the top of the
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Of the 50 cities with the highest murder rate in the world, 41 are in Mexico and South America.
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You can go to gunpolicy.org, and you can look at all of their gun laws in Mexico and South
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America, and you will see that their gun laws are extremely strict.
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So Los Cabos, Mexico is the murder capital of the world with 111 murders per 100,000 people
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Caracas, Venezuela comes next, and then Acapulco, Mexico.
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In Mexico, all guns are purchased through the Ministry of Defense, meaning there is only
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Only one handgun is permitted for home defense.
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In short, guns are not easily legally accessible in Mexico.
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There are only about 15 guns per capita in Mexico compared to the United States' 101, and
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In South America, the gun laws vary, but are generally very strict.
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In Venezuela, for example, you have to cite a genuine reason to purchase a gun in order
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Same thing in Brazil, and the possession of handguns there is prohibited.
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Venezuela only has about 10.7 guns per capita, and Brazil only has eight.
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But of course, the left doesn't cite these countries when we are debating guns.
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They bring up Australia and Great Britain as models that we should follow.
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Okay, well, Australia should give you a really good picture of what the left wants in America.
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And even though it has been cited that gun homicides and suicides decreased during that
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time or after that happened, both of those things were already decreasing before the
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And there is really no proof that the confiscation had a direct effect on the continued decrease
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In Great Britain, it is very difficult to get a gun.
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And yet it was chronicled last year by the Office for National Statistics in the UK that
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London had surpassed New York City in crime rate, saturated with burglary, with murder,
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And you remember in 2017 when there were three separate terror attacks in London by men driving
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A few of these things probably could have been stopped by armed police officers, don't you
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These places are not necessarily safer because of stricter gun laws.
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They might have fewer mass shootings, but there is no proof saying that because of their stricter
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gun laws, the citizens of these places are less susceptible to violence.
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These facts, they don't matter because that is where the left wants us to go, in the direction
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of Australia, who literally took guns away from people in Great Britain, where not even
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And with 310 million guns in America, the only way that would be possible would be through
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military force, going door to door, demanding our guns.
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And that is the very thing the founders sought to protect us from by writing the Second Amendment.
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See, they say that's not what they want, that they don't want to take away our guns,
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that they just want common sense gun laws, whatever that even means.
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That's usually how they start the conversation.
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But the thing is, they end the conversation every time without fail by saying, well, why do you
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The skepticism that anyone would even need a gun.
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I posted a video with Amy Robbins, who is the CEO of Alexo Athletica, a concealed carry
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And she was showing me all of the places in these leggings that she designed where someone
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And the comments that I got from leftists that we are paranoid, crazy, that it's totally
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unnecessary, yada, yada, yada, were absolutely insane.
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It's amazing that in the age of Me Too, when sexual assault and harassment has been placed
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center stage, where we're talking about it all the time, why anyone in their right mind
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would ask someone, especially a woman, why she would need a gun.
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Someone on Instagram told me that, well, if no one had a gun, then I wouldn't need a gun
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So you're telling me that if a 200 pound guy unarmed followed me to my car in a parking
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garage one night, say he had a knife or say he had a cord, or maybe he just had his bare
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If he followed me one night that I would be able to fight him off.
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So, I mean, I can, I can do a plank for 90 seconds, but I don't think that I am quite
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strong enough to beat up a man, even a man that's 150 pounds.
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So their typical response to that is, well, why not use a knife or pepper spray?
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And my first response is, obviously, I have to get a lot closer to him to use either of
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And chances are he's going to overpower me before I use them.
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So they're probably not going to be very effective.
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And that leads to number two, a gun, even just brandishing a gun is a far greater deterrent
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And then number three, why do you care what I want to use to defend myself?
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Whether it is a gun or a silly string, why shouldn't I be able to choose how to protect
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Which leads to this next point of absolute hypocrisy within the gun control crowd.
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The left is all about choice, especially for women.
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When it comes to gender, when it comes to whatever flavor of sexual promiscuity we want,
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choosing to dismember babies inside the womb, but choosing to defend ourselves with a firearm.
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I mean, really, the hypocritical rhetoric about abortion from the left that they refuse to
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OK, so you're telling me each of these arguments work for abortion, the express purpose of which
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is to kill a person, to kill an unborn child, but not for the possession of guns, which can
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be used for many things other than killing innocent people.
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First of all, the idea that abortion is nothing more than a health care decision is straight
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The point is that the leftist gun control crowd somehow thinks that me, a law abiding
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citizen, owning a gun for protection is somehow a threat to society.
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That's why I shouldn't have the choice when in reality, it's probably going to protect
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And it's probably going to protect you, too, if you're around me.
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And when you're on stage, any of you who have been on a stage, you know that the light sometimes
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can be really bright and you can't see the back of the room.
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I get a little bit freaked out that someone's going to burst in and shoot me or something
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But you know where I'm the least scared of a bad guy with a gun?
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I'm least scared when I'm speaking in Texas to groups of Republicans.
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When I am in Texas speaking to conservatives, I literally have no fear of coming of someone
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coming in with a gun because I know there are at least 10 good guys with guns who are
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probably even specially trained to deal with an emergency scenario like that.
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I'm most scared when I go to California or New York or D.C. where I know no one will
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But again, this perspective, that kind of fear that especially women have and that confidence
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that we have when we are around guns and when we are around good people with guns, that doesn't
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It's not the same coverage, at least, that this whole March for Our Lives did.
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Instead, we are seeing teenagers hailed as heroes only because they are driving home the media's
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preconceived agenda, not because they actually know what they're talking about.
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Now, I will say, I am glad that these young people have this right of free speech and are
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Even if I disagree with them, I believe in their right to stand up for what they believe
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But what these kids don't realize, it seems, is that they would not have this right if
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Not just in the constitutional sense, but in a very tangible sense.
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The protests, if you saw on TV, were manned by armed guards and security.
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But unfortunately, they and so many people on the left are completely blind to that hypocrisy.
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And no matter how hard we try to get them to open their eyes, they refuse to.
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No matter how much we talk about moral relativism, the breakdown of the family, fatherlessness,
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They still refuse to loosen their grasp on the hope that they will be able to get people
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to give up their guns as a solution rather than talking about all the problems underneath.
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Now, for the Christian perspective on this, this is a podcast that promises to kind of
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give you a biblical understanding or at least talk through my biblical understanding of current
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Well, I'm not going to pretend like there is a specific verse in the Bible from which
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And just for the record, I don't think being for gun control is antithetical to Christianity
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in the way that I think being pro-choice is antithetical to Christianity.
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I think that you are wrong logically if you're for more and more gun control, but I don't think
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that it is unbiblical necessarily to be a gun control advocate.
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The gun argument really has a lot more to do with how you view humans and our rights than
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I simply believe that it is innate in each of us to protect ourselves, our families, and
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our communities rather than rely on the government, something that has proven itself unreliable.
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When we start relying on the government to take care of us and to protect us, we end up in
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Every totalitarian regime has begun by people giving up their means of protection.
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You think Hitler or Mao or Stalin allowed their people to be armed?
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Murder, torture, and immense pain and suffering.
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I tweeted this weekend that you know you've hit peak first world privilege when you are
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Whether cognitively or not, these protesters over the weekend were asking for rights to
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They were asking for more government control and more government dependence.
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And in general, more government dependence actually leads to godlessness.
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The more government rule there is, the less freedom of religion there is, the less people
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are free to worship God because he is replaced by whoever is in authority.
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Over the past 200 years, we have continually drifted away from what was founded as a country
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People now trust the government far more than they do God or church.
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And I imagine that would only get worse if we start allowing our government officials
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and police officers to be basically the only people armed, while the rest of us suffer under
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Now, seeing all of this, I obviously have very strong opinions about this, but what we know
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for absolutely sure, what is in the Bible that I can say with absolute confidence is that
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one day there will be no need for self-defense.
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There will be no abuse, no violence, no death, no terrorism, no murder, no school shootings,
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no arguments about gun control, no vitriol in the media.
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One day there will be complete and total peace, joy, satisfaction, and healing.
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We will not be fragmented or broken or left wanting.
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When Jesus returns, when every knee bows and every tongue confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord,
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when he defeats sin and death once and for all, when there's a new heaven and a new earth,
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and when every person the Lord has called to himself will enjoy him forever and ever,
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The truth is, no matter how many conversations about this we have, no matter how many marches
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we have, the world isn't going to get any better.
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We will always wonder how much worse the world can get for our children and our grandchildren.
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Jesus told us, in this world, you will have trouble, but take heart because I have overcome
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Even though these conversations are, I think, very important, even though I believe it is
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crucial for Christians to shed light into dark spheres of politics and culture, ultimately,
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Our encouragement, our motivation, our satisfaction right now comes from knowing that one day all
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will be made new and we will no longer have to talk about these things because we will be
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forever completely content worshiping Jesus together.
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I'm trying new segments at the end of the podcast every week because why not?
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Last week, my last segment was called Things I Just Don't Get and I talked about how I just
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don't get fashion bloggers and lifestyle bloggers, how they do what they do, considering I can't
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Okay, there's a lot of things I just don't get, so I'm probably going to do that segment
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And if there are things that you don't get, I want you to email them to me because I'll
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probably think they're really funny and maybe I'll share them.
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But this week, I have a new segment and this segment is called Confessions.
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And if I could play Usher's Confessions right now without copyright infringement, I would,
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I tried to sing at the beginning of this podcast and I already listened to it.
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Um, but this is where I will confess something to you that I have been really bad about and
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that I'm seriously going to get better at, um, and hopefully be sanctified through.
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So in alley worlds, there are two kinds of sass.
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There is biblical sass and there is unbiblical sass.
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Biblical sass is like Jesus to his disciples, like all the time, like when they didn't get
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a parable and he would be like, dude, do you like not remember this prophecy that I'm clearly
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Or when he overturned the tables and the temple, that is biblical sass.
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Biblical sass is like righteous anger or even using sarcasm to make a legitimate point.
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Unbiblical sass is what I am supremely guilty of.
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It is used to make people feel stupid for saying something really stupid.
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Like, are you an idiot or are you dumb because you didn't really just actually say that?
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And I do that a lot, actually, especially in the past few days, because I've seen some
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really, really idiotic comments on gun control.
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And let me tell you, I have always struggled with this.
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I think that I learned how to speak sarcastically before I learned how to speak literally.
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Sometimes it's not good, though, but it is always funny.
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But what I've learned sometimes, and maybe this is a lesson for all of us,
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sometimes I have to sacrifice humor for godliness.
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And it's actually really even hard for me to say that because it makes me sad.
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But seriously, unbiblical sass is my cross to bear.
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And I give you guys permission to call me out on it.
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But please do it nicely because I might be kind of sensitive about it.
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But seriously, speaking the truth in love is what we are called to do.
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But a lot of times it just makes people feel dumb.
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I seriously, I seriously sometimes like, my responses, I'm like, oh, gosh, I can't believe
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It's really sad, actually, how politics and the internet can bring that out in each of us.
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But as Christians, we are called to be salt and light, not to be sass and mean.
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So I'm really going to try to get better at that rather than just like unleashing my unhinged
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sassiness to people sometimes who just say stupid things on the internet.
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