There’s been a lot of talk about President-elect Barack Obama taking away Americans’ constitutional right to own guns. Many of those doing the talking are conservative Christians — all of which makes relevant an article by Chuck Baldwin that was first published in July and is once again making the rounds online.
Baldwin, one of the independent candidates for president this year (who also received almost no votes), cites biblical passages that he believes underscore the right of people to own weapons. “Even our Lord understood and validated the right of every person to arm themselves for personal self-defense,” he wrote in USA Tomorrow, a publication from the US Observer that was started this year as an antidote to the dreaded “mainstream media.”
Baldwin’s column starts off talking about the New Life Church shootings in Colorado Springs last December and how the gun-packing volunteer security officer Jeanne Assam saved dozens of lives by stopping shooter Matthew Murray. The biblical citations come later — and you can read it all right here.
Gun rights are in the Bible, former presidential candidate says is a post from: The Pulpit