Posted on 01/12/2013 6:47:56 AM PST by LD Jackson
Never let it be said that the Obama administration is not willing to use every weapon in its arsenal. The fight over stricter gun control laws is heating up and Obama and his team are moving heaven and earth, trying to drum up support for their assault on the 2nd Amendment rights of American citizens. I find it odd that they would target some of the groups they have chosen, hence my claim that they have a double standard on gun control and morals.
You may believe I am making a baseless claim, but I can show I am not. First, let me include a quote that will set the baseline for my argument. Vice President Joe Biden is clearly taking a different than usual tact to make his points.
(Politico) During one session with a dozen religious leaders on Wednesday, Biden made a specific request to those gathered to preach to their congregations about the importance of enacting stronger gun control laws, said the Rev. Michael McBride, a participant in the meeting and a community organizer for the PICO Network, an alliance of faith-based organizations.“The vice president shared how he felt this was one of the most important meetings of all the meetings, that the faith leaders, the faith community has a very unique role in engaging in the moral persuasion necessary to address the gun challenges in our country,” McBride said. “He called upon us to take that seriously and that the administration and everyone involved is going to be looking to us to help to make that argument across the different faith traditions.”
I mentioned in yesterday's post that gun control advocates are trying to change the debate and the definition of their goals. No longer is the debate over the 2nd Amendment, according to the left. Instead, it is about gun violence. All of a sudden, it is a moral issue and one they want preachers and priests to advocate to the members of their congregations. They are trying to build a groundswell of support for stricter gun laws and they want the help of preachers and priests. The double standard to which I refer is clearly apparent. Because the Obama administration says gun control is a moral issue, they are claiming the moral high ground. It follows naturally that they would enlist the help of preachers and priests to help them drive home their argument. I wonder why the same does not hold true with issues that have backgrounds that are steeped in true morality?
For years, many preachers and priests have preached against abortion and homosexuality. These two issues are true moral issues. One involves the breaking of God's commandments about relationships and the other involves the murder of innocent babies. When any one of us, preacher, priest, or lay member, dares mention these two issues, we are to sit down and shut up. We are told we are infringing upon the rights of individuals to do as they wish with their bodies. Namely, to kill their unborn child or to go against God's commandments about homosexuality.
And the Obama administration would like us to believe that gun control is a moral issue, one that should be preached on in our churches? But they don't want us to mention abortion or homosexuality? The double standard and hypocrisy is astoundingly clear.
The moral issue is the shoeshine boy Biden and his customer the phony Bronco Bama. These two are idiot marxists whose only aim is to castrate America.
Gov’t is wrongfully taking the place of God. Liberals, instead of acknowledging God, they look to Gov’t as God. And the plagiarist Joe Biteme is so wrong on this !
Yes plugs. It is immoral to try to disarm the populace. Making it a moral issue we must fight(figuratively or whatever other way) to protect.
Biden is finally correct....
It’s TOTALLY IMMORAL NOT to defend your life and the lives of your loved ones. It’s totally immoral not to defend your freedom.
Finally right, but on the wrong side. What a dweeb!
It is Joe, problem is, you don’t see that you are on the wrong side of it.
I agree That it is a moral issue. Biteme and Bath House Barry are on the wrong side of it.
Perhaps an odd question ask VP Joe....but does he himself own a gun, and why? Maybe all 100 members of the Senate ought to be asked the same question....on the record.
From a man (Catholic) who supports abortion.
Sure, we should listen to slow Joe about morals.
5.56mm
A moral issue from a Party that promotes the murder of a million American babies a year. A moral issue from a Party that promotes perversion. A moral issue from a Party that has corruption running amuck. A moral issue from a Party that confiscates the money from people who worked for it to give to their lazy worthless parasite voters.
that's the ultimate in 'having a gun' ~ like Bwana and the Gun Bearers imagery ~ they are not giving up their guns.
Imagine if the Good Samaritan of Luke’s Gospel arrived on the scene a bit earlier and witnessed the robbers beating their victim near to death. Would his obligation been to intervene using what weapons he had to defend this innocent man? If the Samaritan had carried a sword would he not have rightly used it to save this innocent mans life and protect his own? Biden would have us be the Levite and just walk by.
More people die from prescription drug overdose each year in this country than are murdered with guns. Leave the NRA alone and go after the AMA. Afterall, it’s a moral issue.
Boehner should introduce a bill to strip Secret Service and Capitol guards of their weapons. The hypocrisy of Dems will be exposed as this bill receives zero votes on the floor of the House. And if having armed protection is legitimate for public officials, it certainly shouldn’t be outlawed for the citizens who pay to support them.
I concur with the previous observations that this is a moral issue and that Obama/Biden are squarely on the wrong side of it. We’ve seen the movie where despots disarm the citizenry: it doesn’t end well.
Zero and Joe Plugs don’t know what moral is or means. They are just yanking out some of their token religious types as a propaganda tool. Stalin did the same thing when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union.
Maybe he means morale.
Plug-Joey doesn’t have many more years left on this earth. I wouldn’t have the balls to do what he is doing when I know I will be meeting my creator in the near future. Hope he likes the color black!!
The moral issue is people whose “value system” lets them maim and kill other people.
The issue is liberalism destroying the traditional value systems that most Americans had.
Gun control is a CONTROL issue. Always has been. Always will be.
Is there even one area of society where you've made things more moral instead of much less so in the last 20 or 30 years or longer?
Education? Nope. Finance? Nope. Taxation, housing or immigration??? Nope, nope and nope. Honesty, integrity or transparency in government? Not even close.
There must be one, but right now I can't think of what it would be.
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