The Americans with Charlie LeDuff: Guns, God and Good Ol' Boys
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- PADUCAH, Ky. - Kentucky Baptist churches have figured out a way to get good old boys in the pews. Give away steaks and guns. Yep.
Charlie LeDuff goes to Paducah, Kentucky to partake in one of these "Second Amendment Celebrations."
The disconnect? West Paducah was the site of the 1997 high school shooting that left three students dead. It was the first high-profile school shooting in the 24/7 News Cycle world: before Columbine, the Amish school house, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook and 150 others.
Have we forgotten?
Some people in Paducah think the gun give-away at the church is "insensitive."
Others, including Pastor Chuck McAlister, say it's just a Good Ol' Boy cultural thing.
"This issue is not guns. The issue is men's hearts," says McAlister. "Men who have their hearts changed through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ will handle guns responsibly."
I don't get why it's "insensitive." Because there was a shooting in that town almost 20 years ago, they can't have any events relating to firearms? I just don't see the logic there
Because school shootings happen on a weekly basis. Not 20 years ago. Google statistics on school shootings
How many schools have installed bullet-proof windows, time locks, security guards,gated parking, panic protocols, etc., since paducah?
How many federal laws have been passed to provide security for our children?
If anyone wanted to protect children, they would make schools harder to attack!!!!!
Your government has forsaken you.
exactly, they spend more time helping psycho's get guns...
best answer i've heard thus far
I'm in a Charlie LeDuff CZcams wormhole today... and this is the only video so far that made me shake my head at the position you were trying to push.
We have a local volunteer organization that has a gun giveaway as an incentive to get people to come to their "Hunter's Supper". The proceeds help them rebuild certain parts of the community. The supper takes place (last time I went and helped) inside an elementary school.
I know it's kind of hard for someone from Detroit to understand, but guns are a very different thing out in the country. Even in a place that had a bad thing happen 20 years ago. Maybe I'm making an assumption about where you're from by the way, I don't know for sure.
Let me ask a basic question that I hope might turn into a dialogue: If there was a man who drove a truck through a high school and killed 3 kids and paralyzed another, would you do this same report if the church was having a truck giveaway? Why or why not?
- signed, the guy who carried at a gun at Virginia Tech and was supposed to be in the classroom that the shooter reportedly went into first.
I'd much rather have everyone armed around me then nobody armed at all. A criminal with a gun isn't going to mess around with a group of armed decent civilians, but an unarmed group of decent civilians, easy pickings..
This is the first video I've seen by Charlie where he is completely off target.
guns are not the promblems
No one wants to sound insensitive but at the same time the other side SHOULD NOT use dead children as a political rallying banner. Our rights are more important than the dead, sounds heartless but it is true.
I guess you're right.
The dead have no rights.
What about the rights of those before they died? Does Amendment II trump Amendment IV?
Charlie said it all at the end of the video in regards to the 2A. Is children dying in school shootings acceptable collateral in order to keep the 2A right? The answer is simple; teams (5-10 people) of trained armed security at each and every public school.
They security personnel could carry concealed as not to draw attention, and walk the school halls getting to know the faculty and children. Basically integrating into the schools community. They would be paid for by local property taxes. Almost every land owner would be happy to oblige by the tax.
It's very important though that it not be Law Enforcement Officers patrolling the schools. The objective is not to increase surveillance on school children and pop them for every minor crime or infraction. The objective is only to break up physical violence and to neutralize armed aggression as fast as possible.
If this was implemented in every public school, we would see an extreme drop in school shootings. And when they would happen, the death count would be significantly lower.
I protect federal property with a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol.
I appreciate that, as an American citizen, I can protect my family with a similar level of fire power.
The federal government and banks are protected by guns.
Because guns being right there next to stuff that you want to protect, is how you protect that stuff.
Well I want to protect is my family.
And it doesn't matter what the laws are I'm going to protect my family.
I would definitely prefer that guns remain legal because I know for an absolute fact that the federal government and banks are always going to use guns to protect themselves.
State and local authorities are always going to have guns to protect themselves.
Drug dealers are always going to have guns to protect themselves.
I too should be allowed to protect myself.
Chuck Mcalister looks like a great man and I would love to visit that church!
poor girl,..makes me sick that she is in a wheel chair,....arm teachers? i dont really know what to do,...but a gun is a tool and we have people killing people with cars and trucks!? i just dont know!
We need to address the serious and growing mental health issues in our country instead of ignoring them. Treat everyone around you with respect and compassion, and try to look out for each other. A little friendliness and understanding goes a long way.
The 2a doesn’t say “shall not be infringed _unless it makes you feel uncomfortable, in case of a public health crisis or to make communists happy_ “ it says *Shall Not Be Infringed* period.
What would Jesus carry? And why would god allow mass killings?
Free will God gave us and we choose. The death of school children has little to do with churches or guns and much to do with "Gun Free Zones". Who created those "Gun Free Zones"? It seems a dangerous place to be in a "Zone"
Well Jesus carried the word of God and was killed for it so if guns were a thing maybe he could’ve lived longer to spread the word further, God works in wicked ways who are we to question him?
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well mmmmmm guns in church nope
guns are not the promblems