There are people who believe that Christians should be anti-gun.
\nSome who call themselves Christian believe that.
\nMany more though, don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Christians with guns as American as apple pie<\/a><\/p>\n JACKSONVILLE, ARKANSAS \u2014 Imagine if you will a place where kids as young as 3 years old are taught to handle a firearm \u2014 where women with increasing frequency are trained to defend self and family with guns \u2014 where middle-schoolers and high-schoolers alike are both competent and competitive at ready-aim-and-firing \u2014 and where going to church on Sunday is as natural as hitting the shooting range on Monday.<\/p>\n Twilight zone?<\/p>\n Nope. That\u2019s the AGFF\/Jacksonville Shooting Sports Complex in Jacksonville, Arkansas. That\u2019s the scene of small-town, beyond-the-D.C.-bubble-Beltway America, where God, guns and flag-waving patriotism is part and parcel of the normal growing experience.<\/p>\n Where Christians who shoot are as American as apple pie.<\/p>\n \u201cIn my opinion, it\u2019s our right as a Christian, as a non-Christian,\u201d said Jerry Hill, the manager of the Jacksonville shooting range \u2014 which is actually operated and funded under the local Parks & Recreation Department, rather than privately owned and maintained.<\/p>\n Gasp, go the liberals.<\/p>\n What would Jesus say, scold the leftists.<\/p>\n But this just shows how different the thinking and mindsets between Outside City dwellers and Inside City dwellers \u2014 between the largely Democrat-dominated cities and the largely Republican-dominated suburban and country settings.<\/p>\n \u201cHe is the ultimate peacemaker, but he also lost his temper \u2026 and tore everything apart,\u201d Hill said, in reference to the Bible passage about Jesus turning out the money-changers in the temple.<\/p>\n In other words: Jesus approves of righteous anger and self-defense. Being Christian doesn\u2019t mean being a docile victim.<\/p>\n \u201cI would \u2026 have to ask somebody, if you say, \u2018Well, I don\u2019t think Christians ought to own guns,\u2019 I\u2019d ask him, \u2018Why, why do you think that,\u2019\u201d Hill said.<\/p>\n The shooting range he manages is one of the region\u2019s most competitive, offering children, teens, women and men alike the opportunity to train and compete skeet and trap shooting. Parents have brought their 3-year-olds, their 8-year-olds, their sixth-graders, their high-schoolers, their teens to the facility; and for the most part, Hill said, they don\u2019t get a lot of negative anti-Second Amendment types telling them how wrong they are to put weapons in the hands of minors.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s all about education,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n It\u2019s all about teaching the proper handling for weapons; the proper respect to give the weapons.<\/p>\n Train the children in the way they should go \u2014 and they won\u2019t run wild in the streets, smashing storefront windows, shooting rival gang members, gunning down innocent bystanders and citizens.<\/p>\n That\u2019s sort of biblical in itself, in a Proverbs\u2019 spinning kind of way.<\/p>\n But that\u2019s America, right? God, guns, family, country.<\/p>\n Second Amendment.<\/p>\n Prayer.<\/p>\n Keys to keeping the country free.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Second Amendment and our prayer,\u201d Hill said. \u201cI think it goes hand in hand.\u201d<\/p>\n And it does. Everywhere in America \u2014 except where partisan leftists reign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are people who believe that Christians should be anti-gun. Some who call themselves Christian believe that. Many more though, don\u2019t. 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