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How To Live Under An Unqualified President by John Piper

Practices Christian Living
#2026

You also need to be very careful, that you document everything. In the case of police or civil lawsuits. One of my favorite TV channels is

Where they deal with murders - most foil. In one case, this couple lived in an apartment complex. And this weird or crazy guy, didn’t like their dog - when it barked. So he came down and broke open their door - with an ax. Then he threatened to kill the dog and the guy. But he had a gun and was video recording the whole event. Well, he had to shoot the guy three times. When police arrived, he put down the gun. But the video recording cleared him.

#2027

When I let go and trust God in surrender my frustrations and anger melt away. I use to get angry but I’ve learned to let things go. I have faith in the God who promises to work all my frustrating circumstances together for my good. Moreover, God says “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay.” I’ve surrendered under God’s mighty hand by letting Him have control. I let go and let God. By meditating on who God is letting go comes naturally. As they tell us in A.A. “We will intuitively know how to handle situations that use to baffle us.” There’s more serenity, peace, and love over here. The Bible says when you get angry don’t sin. But we are not to let the sun go down on our wrath. We are to let it go and trust God. Indeed, the beautiful fruits of the Spirit are:

Love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, kindness, goodness, and self-control.

We love God because He first loved us. God opens up the eyes of our hearts to see and behold His beauty and be transformed by it. When I get angry I turn it over to God. The power to love is the confidence that God will take care of my future.

If we were to live we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of normal men, but for alcoholics these things are poison. - Bill Wilson of Alcoholics Anonymous

#2028

Archie Bunker agrees with you. On television, Archie proclaimed a solution to the fact that armed bandits had been taking over airplanes. He said, “Just arm every passenger with a gun. Then they’ll think twice before trying to take over a plane!”

#2029

True, and he’s the only one…

Well maybe a few others :-:grinning: I don’t live or die on the following figures(250k to 2 million, really?), since every source I read varies widely. Still, I feel safer knowing that the simple showing of a firearm is enough to run off the greatest percentage of home invaders.

“Studies have indicated that Americans use firearms in self defense between ~250,000 to over 2 million times a year. One of the studies by Professor Kleck, et al, that gave us the figure of over 2 million showed that actual shootings were quite rare. On the order of less than 6% of incidents was a shot fired, even if it was a miss or a “warning shot”. This means criminals are more likely to abort their criminal actions when confronted by an armed homeowner or armed victim. If I recall correctly, only about 2% of incidents resulted in a fatality.”
some website

#2030

According to today’s BBC news…at least Canada is lending a hand…to help displaced workers, due to the US shutdown.

#2031

God save the Queen!

#2032

There is an online-available 180-page report on the Parkland school shootings. The link below is to an article that discusses the report.
The recommendations in the report - and it is nuanced and intelligent, nothing knee-jerk about it - concern mental health, guns, cyber-bullying, early detection of and reporting on troubled youth who exhibit certain characteristics; and the point that local policy-making is probably better than Federal mandates.
It covers a lot of ground and I look forward to reading more of the report.
http://thefederalist.com/2019/01/14/5-key-takeaways-parkland-school-shooting-report/

Partial table of contents:

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#2033

Well, it does make folks feel better. Many carry firearms when they go into what they think as a hostile environment. Your point about suicide is well taken but we have to take into consideration the idea that is mental stability/ suicide is enough of a reason to strip the founding fathers understanding of the second amendment ?

#2034

Much of what was laid out in the Parkland Shooting report above could apply to suicides as well. A multi-layered approach seems like the most intelligent route.

#2035

I’m not sure I understand, can you elaborate?

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#2036

Sorry - if you look at the partial table of contents I posted above, the first 12 items are a multi-layered approach to prevention.

#2037

Who is the report by? I’m sorry who is the federalist?

I should have said who are.

#2038

The report is from the Federal Commission on School Safety, which was set up by Trump.
The Federalist is a conservative website.

#2039

Well, I found the Federalist info and site, but what about the ‘Federal Commission on School Safety’ part, fill me in bro.

#2040

Well dang it all, I thought I’d provided that. Senility, brother, is stalking me…
Here’s the link

#2041

Today there’s an interesting article, from the BBC news:

#2042

This seems boilerplate as yes it’s Trump’s personality that offends but his actual accomplishments are impressive IMO. I could give a laundrylist but the article covered a lot of that. Excasperating his negative personality traits is the media which 95% is now an unashamed extension of the political left. At this point they don’t hide it and they don’t care.

#2043

Sure. We had the “studied elegance” of Obama, and yet he was working night and day to destroy the country. I’ll take Trump, who is a man of his word, and also knows how to use social media - tweets to keep his opponents off-guard.
There’s my Trump reaction, right on cue :slight_smile:

#2044
#2045

Thanks Bob. Is this story true, or do you care?
Is this (Australian!) story true, or must it be false because the LA Times - a Californian paper - says otherwise?