Salon seems to be the new preferred media outlet for the Brady bunch as they seek a platform to deliver their unpopular, out-of-style message of universal disarmament in the face of bad guys. They ran a piece by Philip Gulley (pictured above) in which he admits he was wrong about the Second Amendment. Who is Philip Gulley and why should we care what he thinks?
A Quaker pastor, author and speaker, Philip Gulley received his masters of divinity degree from Christian Theological Seminary, and is co-pastor of Fairfield Friends Meeting in Camby, Indiana. He is also the author of “Living the Quaker Way: Timeless Wisdom for a Better Life Today” by Convergent Books.
So, we’ve got a pacifist lecturing us on how we don’t need the right to self-defense.
Yeah. Pretty big words for a guy who depends upon good guys with guns to keep the peace so he and his flock don’t get fleeced – and worse.
Here’s a teaser from his pathetic screed chock full of well-worn cliches so thoroughly devoid of factual basis. Warning: He uses race baiting, bigoted stereotypes and all sorts of bait-and-switch in his missive.
I was wrong about the Second Amendment: Why my view of guns totally changed
I used to think calls for gun safety reform were overblown. Then the world changed — and with it everything I knew…Before Noah Pozner died, I thought there was nothing wrong with the Second Amendment a little common sense couldn’t fix. After he died, I’ve come to believe “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms” no longer promotes our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but daily threatens them…
…these days the NRA reminds me of the folks who packed the courtroom of the Scopes monkey trial, fighting to preserve a worldview no thoughtful person espoused.
…They remind me of the Confederates who fought to defend the indefensible, sacrificing the lives of others in order to preserve some dubious right they alone valued. They would rather die, armed to the teeth, than live in a nation free of guns and their bitter harvest. You can have my gun when you pry it from around my cold, dead fingers, their bumper stickers read. How empty their lives must be if life without a gun is not worth living….
…We can be great again, but not without addressing the fear and ignorance that feed our gun culture, for no nation can ascend until it cures the virus of violence. We cannot let the most fearful among us set our nation’s tone, lest we descend to that sorry state we labored centuries to rise above. It is time for America to grow up, to become adults, so that children like Noah Pozner have a fighting chance to do the same.
Well Well Well – This preacher has obviously not read his own book.
Lucas 22 verse 31 – 36 is pretty clear. So go back home and continue study.
Notice the wording, “no nation can ascend until it cures the virus of violence”. H. L. Menken is laughing in his grave at the though of us still bedeviled by the same old school uplifters.
This fool must have gotten a ” donation ” from the Brady Bunch.
Yes, of course, he’s got it! Remove guns, and all violence will disappear. Why doesn’t he simply move to Britain or another similar country where they have pretty much done what he wants? We all know there is no violence in those countries.
I’m wagering there will soon come a day……… a day when we fall to our knees…………..not to grovel before the despots like this guy, who would have us disarmed and HELPLESS…………but to thank the good Lord above that our founding fathers had the FORESIGHT to imagine an evil time hundreds of years after their own passing when the people would again need to protect themselves from a despotic government.
THings are nearing that point.
When “mainstream” pastors and clowns like this guy think we ALL need to be disarmed, the way to do that is a Constitutional Amendment REPEALING the SECOND AMENDMENT> Yeah, that’s right, if you don’t like it, get off your fat arse and walk door to door lobbying the people to lobby their representatives to introduce a proposed Amendment.
Until then, keep buying, keep stockpiling, keep reloading. YE will soon need ’em all.
And thanks to God for our founding fathers, who were light years ahead of anything any public skool has turned out for generations.
They would be ashamed of what we’ve become.
We cannot let the most fearful among us set our nations tone ! Seems as the most fearful among us are the anti gunners ! They are certainly trying to set our nations tone ! I know of no one, who legally carries a gun that fears anything, except maybe, a tyrannical government bent on disarming it’s law abiding citizens !
Sounds like a neville chamberlin (sp?) To me.
I seriously doubt this guy was ever pro second amendment. He doesn’t offer up a single logical argument. He just falls back on the tried and true tactic of name calling to distract everyone from his completely vacuous arguments.
When you get right down to it – the entire anti-gun culture and political machine are built on ignorance, fear and name calling backed by a few billionaires who are trying to curry favor with corrupt controlling politicians.
The founders understood human nature and political corruption all too well – and I thank God that they did.