{"id":20,"date":"2010-09-13T08:38:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T08:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godscomic\/2010\/09\/clean-your-gun.html"},"modified":"2010-09-13T08:38:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T08:38:03","slug":"clean-your-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/2010\/09\/clean-your-gun.html","title":{"rendered":"Clean your gun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">How in this day and age are people still killing<br \/>\npeople while cleaning their gun? If you were a gun owner one would think you<br \/>\nwould be most aware of removing the bullets before cleaning. If this isn&#8217;t a<br \/>\ncollect the insurance scam I don&#8217;t know what one is?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>It seems as though this excuse has worked over<br \/>\nthe years but it is getting a little stale. Of course if it works why change<br \/>\nthe strategy?<span>&nbsp; <\/span>It would be a<br \/>\nperfect scenario for other murderers to give it a go and see how dazed jurors<br \/>\nof our peers actually can be. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&#8220;Sir why did you run over your wife&#8221;? &#8220;I didn&#8217;t,<br \/>\nI was washing my car when it suddenly went out of control and hit her while she<br \/>\nwas sunbathing in the back yard. What are the odds that the one time I decide<br \/>\nto wash my car with the engine on&#8230;THIS happens&#8221;? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Similar to the insanity plea. The fact that people<br \/>\ncan live a normal life and then for no apparent reason get an itch to murder<br \/>\nand eat their neighbor and then get let off the hook should be (by us sane<br \/>\npeople) reason enough to make the insanity plea an automatic lifer for the<br \/>\ninsane dude. I would have to categorize this as a put em in jail and throw away<br \/>\nthe key conclusion if there ever was one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Yes <i>but<\/i><br \/>\n(says the bleeding heart), they were not responsible for their behavior. If you<br \/>\nare telling me that people can snap at the drop of a hat and then claim they<br \/>\nwere in a fog, or the toaster wouldn&#8217;t stop screaming at them, then I don&#8217;t<br \/>\nlike my chances hanging with him if he asks me if I would like to take a tour<br \/>\nof the old neighborhood meat packing place, you know for nostalgias sake? In<br \/>\nother words if you are unable to desist from your periodic robotic killing<br \/>\nsprees then you have forfeited the privilege of living amongst the non-cannibals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>It does lead to interesting developments in the<br \/>\nidea of justice when this nonsense is allowed leeway. Who would have imagined<br \/>\nawhile back that when a pastors wife shot her husband in the back of the head<br \/>\nwith a shot gun while he slept, ran off with her kids to escape, (funny how her<br \/>\n&#8220;sanity&#8221; kicked in when she needed it most), gets caught, suddenly remembers<br \/>\nher husband was &#8220;abusive&#8221; and eventually was returned custody of her kids, that<br \/>\nthis is considered justice to a society. Women have been let off the hook for<br \/>\nviolent crimes against men for years when apparently the only time feminists<br \/>\nplay the &#8220;we are weak and fragile and in need of assistance&#8221; card is when women<br \/>\nkill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Excuses for our sinful behavior is nothing new<br \/>\nto the human race as it was the original &#8220;Abbott and Costello&#8221; routine. &#8220;What<br \/>\nhappened?..she did it!&#8230;what happened?&#8230;the snake did it!&#8230;what happened? The<br \/>\npeople you made did it!&#8230;. Oh I see&#8230;It&#8217;s MY fault for being dumb enough to<br \/>\nmake you guys, my bad!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>This is where the Judeo\/Christian worldview<br \/>\ncomes in handy. It actually recognizes the sinful human condition and admits<br \/>\nit, God didn&#8217;t make an excuse for us, instead He bought our pardon. You might<br \/>\nwant to consider that the next time you hear about the husband who was<br \/>\naccidently cut to ribbons while his wife was cleaning the chainsaw.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How in this day and age are people still killing people while cleaning their gun? If you were a gun owner one would think you would be most aware of removing the bullets before cleaning. If this isn&#8217;t a collect the insurance scam I don&#8217;t know what one is? 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