WoW! This is quite an article. The liberals want gun control, the liberals want God removed from everything in this country, yet we are blamed for gun deaths because of our lack of faith in God. Come on now, are you realy saying that Guns in the hands of Liberal Non-Believers is realy a problem? You may be on to something there, just look at the Liberal Occupy Movement, guns, drugs, rape, assault and all in one little friendly protest because Obama didn’t give the poor little liberal rich kids enough handouts for being failures.
Gun Control? I don’t think so. I need to protect my family from you liberal UN loving American Terrorists.

As B2O2 below wrote, this article sounds like it’s written by someone who’s never traveled outside the US. Our rate of violent death exceeds that of nearly every country in the world. In particular, it is far in excess of European countries.

And yet the level of religious fervor is far lower than ours in Europe.

So if more religion would save us, and less religion would save us, I get the sense that maybe religion doesn’t have a whole lot to do with it one way or the other.

Which would suggest this article is quite wrong.

What are you going to do when you need something that actually works? God or a Gun? I know what one actually works for you in a pinch. We have all heard the expression there are no atheist in foxholes. But you’re not even getting into a foxhole with god if you don’t have a gun.

Besides, guns don’t kill. It is the bullets that kill.

Thank you for this excellent analysis.

How about an even closer comparison, Canada and the US. Canada is much less religious, and has much stricter gun control laws. And the level of violence in Canada is much much lower than what you see in the US.

Lets see all that librul stuff, single payer heath system, strict gun control, same sex marriage, a much more socialistic economy, and its going great economically.

More important question is Are Bullets more important than Books? I thnk the National Rifle Association should support an option to the Spanish language in the public schools. I think the National Rifle Association should support God’s Books originally written in the Hebrew Language and therefor we can choose between Spanish and Hebrew. . Even God’s real name is shot down by bullets. The Vatican won’t let their membership use the Tetragrammaton when they see it in prayerbooks that quote the Bible.

No one.
Next…

Prove it?

I thought so.
Same old tripe from the same old hole.

That is a sad, racist opinion you have choosen to share.
The assumptions and logic are so flawed, it leaves nothing but a mark of anger. This is a problem that affects all of us. if you don’t believe me, look at the victims of this latest violence and consider the demographics you wield like a hammer, instead of looking for the truth.

Jesus would shoot himself if he ever encountered his modern day ‘followers.’

The NRA is the mouthpiece of the weapons manufacturers who make a great deal of their money from war and killing. The more war and destruction the greater their profit. Hatreds and distrust feeds their bottom line. Of course people trust guns more than God, that’s why we have all the wars and the destruction that guns and weapons of all kinds help to create. Death and destruction is their reward. Although people would kill regardless, if they had guns or not, but guns make it easier, and I am not against the ownership of guns for hunting and recreational use, just against trusting guns more than God, because God is Love.

I’ve always found it odd that Ms. Thistlethwaite continually avoids a core tenet of Christianity which is the concept of voluntarism. Now she says that, if people had faith, they would support gun control legislation. Pardon my question, but wouldn’t it be just as true that if they had faith they would trust God to solve the problem rather than themselves brandishing guns through the proxy of government to force their will on their countrymen?

Luke 22:36 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
This is Christ talking to his disciples. The disciples were about to embark on longer trips away from home. Jesus knew the perils and dangers of robbers and wild beast roaming the countryside of their day.
The Holy Word of God teaches us that we will be surrounded by danger and gives us the right to lawfully defend our lives.
Why do you think banning guns will save lives? The “Gun Free Zones” (I call them slaughter zones) do not work! Wherever murder takes place in gun free zones you will have a higher mortallity rate. (Virginia Tech and Aurora are examples of this).
This is not the first time Aurora has experienced a shooting experience. Remember New Destiny Christian Church where a convicted felon began to open fire killing one person, before he himself was taken out by a member of that Church.

Crime in Kennesaw, Ga has plummeted since they enacted the law that all heads of household should posses at least one gun.

This was written not in anger or to knock anyone.