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Rick Lundstrom

What's wrong with having it on the ballot?

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 8:03 AM Permalink
THX 1138


What's wrong with having it on the ballot?


Do I get to vote on spending issues?  Abortion?  Pollution control?  State Education?


You're being absurd, Rick.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 8:08 AM Permalink
Rick Lundstrom

If you think this is in the bag, and it's what people want I wouldn't think it would be a problem.

or:

There's always 2005. Urge your legislator to send through a clean bill.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 8:12 AM Permalink
THX 1138

Keep deflecting the issue, Rick.

I'm done chatting with you on this matter.

You can't even be honest about it.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 8:13 AM Permalink
Luv2Fly

There's always 2005. Urge your legislator to send through a clean bill.

Would you like to give us yet another issue for the election ? Please feel free to do so. I'm sure that the dems coming out against it would do well.

The bill was fine and it passed no problem. But because you agree with the judge it's o.k. The judge's decision will more than likely be overturned as it should.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 8:21 AM Permalink
crabgrass

taking a gun to church...what does that
say about your faith?

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 8:58 AM Permalink
Rick Lundstrom

In the movies, there was a table at the front of the church where the gunslinger had to leave his holster. The Padrewas strict about that.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 9:02 AM Permalink
Byron White

You're being intellectually dishonest here, Rick.

Rick? No can't be!

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 9:40 AM Permalink
Byron White

taking a gun to church...what does
that
say about your faith?

It says nothing.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 9:40 AM Permalink
crabgrass

it says plenty

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 9:57 AM Permalink
Byron White

then enlighten us, crabs, what does it say?

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 9:58 AM Permalink
crabgrass

it says that your faith in God doesn't extend to His personal protection.

it's like the Pope riding around in a bulletproof glass cage.

trying to determine if this couldn't have been more obvious

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 10:00 AM Permalink
Byron White

it says that your faith in God doesn't extend to His personal protection. You do know how idiotic that sounds, don't you?

 

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 10:02 AM Permalink
crabgrass

You do know how idiotic that sounds, don't you?

what?

the idea of taking a gun to church with you?

yes, it sounds very idiotic indeed.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 10:04 AM Permalink
Byron White

More stupidity from you, crabs. Don't you get tired of being so damned stupid?

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 10:15 AM Permalink
crabgrass

don't you ever get tired of name-calling instead of saying something remotely interesting?

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 10:20 AM Permalink
Luv2Fly

it says that your faith in God doesn't extend to His personal protection.

it's like the Pope riding around in a bulletproof glass cage.

You really have little idea what you're talking about here.

Just because you believe in God doesn't mean he's going to protect you from someone elses actions. He gives people free will and they can choose good or evil.


 

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 10:22 AM Permalink
crabgrass

Just because you believe in God doesn't mean he's going to protect you from someone elses actions

why not?

He's God, isn't He?

whatever happenes is His will, isn't it?

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 10:24 AM Permalink
crabgrass

BTW Luv, these two things say the same thing...

it says that your faith in God doesn't extend to His personal protection.

Just because you believe in God doesn't mean he's going to protect you from someone elses actions.

so if I know little, so do you.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 10:25 AM Permalink
Byron White

don't you ever get tired of name-calling instead of saying something remotely interesting?


The truth is always interesting.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 10:28 AM Permalink
Byron White

He's God, isn't He? It is apparent that you know nothing of God, crabs.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 10:29 AM Permalink
crabgrass

It is apparent that you know nothing of God, crabs.

so, you are saying He won't protect you?

okay.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 10:30 AM Permalink
Byron White

I can't say what God will do at any given time. He may intervene He may not. He has his reasons for what He does.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 10:34 AM Permalink
THX 1138

Free will, Crabby.

Free will allows nutjobs to firebomb Churches.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 10:48 AM Permalink
crabgrass

I can't say what God will do at any given time. He may intervene He may not. He has his reasons for what He does.

real solid faith you have there.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 10:49 AM Permalink
THX 1138

Luv, I like you're new avatar.

Very cool!

:-)

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 10:49 AM Permalink
crabgrass

Free will allows nutjobs to firebomb Churches.

and so your Faith is helpless. I see.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 10:51 AM Permalink
THX 1138

You need to reconsider your statement, because that's not helpless in the least.

Free will is the beauty of it.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 10:53 AM Permalink
crabgrass

You need to reconsider your statement, because that's not helpless in the least.

allows nutjobs to firebomb Churches.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 10:58 AM Permalink
crabgrass

if you can't see the absurdity of arming yourself for church, I can't help you.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 10:59 AM Permalink
Byron White

real solid faith you have there.

It is also apparent that you have no understanding of faith.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 11:12 AM Permalink
Luv2Fly

BTW Luv, these two things say the same thing...

it says that your faith in God doesn't extend to His personal protection.

Just because you believe in God doesn't mean he's going to protect you from someone elses actions.

From what I gathered you were saying that if someone was a real believer that they wouldn't need it because God would protect them. You said to Jethro essentially that when you said

so, you are saying He won't protect you?

okay.

Next post.

real solid faith you have there.

Some might believe that they can cross a busy street without looking because God will protect them. It's not advisable though. Someone might believe that God will protect them from someone shooting them again, not advisable. If you understood most people's beliefs you'd realize that most would not fall into that category. It's not that their faith isn't strong, they realize that God gave people free will and with it they can take a life do good and bad. Saying that they don't believe enough or their faith is somehow in question is ludicrous.

Now I'd actually agree that bringing a gun to church is probably not warranted and silly IMO. The church as private property can decide whom they do and whom they don't want to have guns on their premisis.

The point is that the lawsuit was brought to end conceal and carry. So now you're suddenly o.k with religion in politics ? Hmmm, Interesting. Aren't you also the same guy who goes on nonstop about how people should be allowed to do drugs because it's their choice?

 

 



 

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 11:39 AM Permalink
THX 1138

if you can't see the absurdity of arming yourself for church, I can't help you.


You're the one that needs help.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 12:42 PM Permalink
THX 1138



http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/local/9147700.htm


John Caile, president of Concealed Carry Reform Now!, which lobbied for passage of the new law, called the ruling "a bit disingenuous."


"Time has eroded the credibility of all these people who oppose concealed carry, and who predicted all these horror stories that never came true," he said. "We have a year of this law under our belts. Everybody has pretty much behaved, so there is nothing to complain about."


Since the new law took effect last year, the number of permits issued in Minnesota increased more than 70 percent — up to 22,100 from roughly 12,800 in 2002. Yet that was less than half the 50,000 permits lawmakers predicted for the first year.


The new statute eliminated a requirement for people to demonstrate a need to carry a handgun for their job or personal safety. But it also toughened some existing requirements: Permit holders no longer could take their guns onto school grounds, and people convicted of certain violent felonies, such as murder or sexual assault, were prohibited from obtaining permits.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 1:15 PM Permalink
crabgrass

From what I gathered you were saying that if someone was a real believer that they wouldn't need it because God would protect them.

from what I've gathered, you can't see the absurdity of taking a gun to a church.

So now you're suddenly o.k with religion in politics ? Hmmm, Interesting.

no, I never even mentioned politics. I was talking about how absurd it is for womeone to need to take a gun to a church.

Aren't you also the same guy who goes on nonstop about how people should be allowed to do drugs because it's their choice?

as long as it isn't interfering with the rights of another, people can have whatever they like. I never said different.

People have a right to be as absurd as they like as long as it doesn't harm someone else.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 1:59 PM Permalink
Byron White

People have a right to be as absurd as they like as long as it doesn't harm someone else.

And that would be a good thing for you. No wonder you adovacte such a thing.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 2:02 PM Permalink
crabgrass

And that would be a good thing for you. No wonder you adovacte such a thing.

I tolorate you, don't I?

I advocate such a thing because it's freedom

I realize you don't believe in this concept, but I tolorate you anyway.

just what do you think freedom is, anyway?...if not the right to do whatever one pleases as long as it doesn't hinder another's freedom?

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 2:05 PM Permalink
Rick Lundstrom

"Time has eroded the credibility of all these people who oppose concealed carry,"

No, it hasn't.

"and who predicted all these horror stories that never came true,"

I'm glad it wasn't horrible.

"We have a year of this law under our belts. Everybody has pretty much behaved, so there is nothing to complain about."

If you think unconstitutional legislation is nothing to complain about. I think giving into fear is always unfortunate.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 2:08 PM Permalink
Byron White

no, crabs, it is becuase you are utterly absurd that you support such a thing.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 2:09 PM Permalink
Byron White

If you think unconstitutional legislation is nothing to complain about.

Unconsitutional legislation: a term that has been abused by liberal judges for 50 years.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 2:10 PM Permalink
crabgrass

no, crabs, it is becuase you are utterly absurd that you support such a thing.

what is freedom, bodine...and do you believe in it?

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 2:10 PM Permalink
Byron White

conceealed carry is about being ashamed to show the world that you are afraid of it.

See what I mean, crabs, utterly absurd.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 2:10 PM Permalink
Byron White

what is freedom, bodine...and do you believe in it?

we have had that discussion before crabs. your definition of freedom amounts to anarchy. you don't understand what freedom means in the DOI or the Constitution and never will.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 2:12 PM Permalink
crabgrass

nope, that's not a definition.

and my definition of freedom isn't anarchy either.

that you can't define freedom isn't a big surprise if you see a definition of it and think it's anarchy.

anarchy has no concern fro preventing the removal of rights by another.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 2:18 PM Permalink
Byron White

and my definition of freedom isn't anarchy either. Yes it is. It i pretty much whatever the individual wants to do and collective society has no input.

that you can't define freedom isn't a big surprise if you see a definition of it and think it's anarchy. Like I said we went through this before. Freedom, as it is meant in the DOI and as implemented in the Constitution, is the ability to participate in the political process. That you cannot remember what I wrote before is your problem. Maybe it is all the brain cells you killed doping it up.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 2:36 PM Permalink
crabgrass

Yes it is. It i pretty much whatever the individual wants to do and collective society has no input.

what "input" are you suggeting?

but yes, freedom is an individual's right to do whatever they want as long as they don't with someone else's rights.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 2:43 PM Permalink
crabgrass

Freedom, as it is meant in the DOI and as implemented in the Constitution, is the ability to participate in the political process.

nope, that's called democracy, now that's certainly a tool used to help insure people's freedom...but it's not freedom itself.

try again.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 2:45 PM Permalink
Von Johnson

crabgrass 7/14/04 2:09pm

conceealed carry is about being ashamed to show the world that you are afraid of it.

No, it's about not advertising, or drawing attention to ones self. It's really about the right to protect yourself in privacy.

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 2:48 PM Permalink
crabgrass

freedom: 1 : the quality or state of being free: as a : the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action b : liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another

now, bodine...are you for FREEDOM?

Wed, 07/14/2004 - 2:50 PM Permalink