Tennessee GOPer: ‘Christians Who Are Serious’ Should Be Armed

Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey, R-Blountville, Norris speaks about the conclusion of the legislative session at a news conference at the state Capitol in Nashville, Tenn., on Thursday, April 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)
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Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey (R) wrote Friday on Facebook that Christians who were serious about their faith should consider getting gun permits following the massacre at an Oregon community college.

Chris Harper Mercer shot and killed nine people and injured nine others before killing himself Thursday at Umpqua Community College. Victims of the shooting and their family members have told news outlets that the shooter asked his victims whether they were Christians before he shot them.

On Facebook, Ramsey reacted to the shooting by pointing to it as another example in which “Christians and defenders of the West” have been targeted.

He wrote that it was “time to prepare.”

“I would encourage my fellow Christians who are serious about their faith to think about getting a handgun carry permit,” he wrote. “I have always believed that it is better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.”

Here’s Ramsey’s full post:

h/t: Washington Post

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  1. Rather, Christians that are armed should be serious.

  2. Right.

    Because the central message of the beatitudes was “If you wanna be right with god, you gotta be packin’ heat!”

  3. WGWJU?

    (which gun would jesus use)

  4. “Hasta la vista, Pontius Pilate!”

  5. Yes, it’s better to have a gun and not need it…unless having a gun means you accidentally kill someone or you get mad and use it in anger at the wrong time; which is far more likely than you needing a gun and not having it. But pro-gun people aren’t even allowed to contemplate those two scenarios, since it undermines their arguments entirely.

    Seriously, I don’t know how many times I’ve debated with pro-gun people who refuse to even acknowledge that they might shoot someone by mistake, despite how often it happens. And so every single time a gun is used for a good purpose gets magnified by a thousand, while the more frequent times of guns being used for bad purposes shouldn’t even be talked about. And so they firmly believe that the reason we want their guns is because we’re evil and not because we care about safety, because that’s all they’ve got.

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