Meet Pastor Jeremy Lucas.
He spend $3,000 from his church’s discretionary fund – monies meant to help the poorest of the poor charity cases with utilities, rent and food – and spent those monies to buy $3,000 in raffle tickets to win a $750 AR-15 so he could destroy it.
We never said he was a smart preacher, although the odds were in his favor of winning as he bought 2/3rds of the tickets for the local girls’ softball team raffle in his quest to win the rifle. He did win.
Karma has a sense of humor though as the pastor is now in hot water with the police for transferring that rifle to a member of his congregation – supposedly for “safekeeping” – without conducting the proper background check.
He told the local media outlet: “There are millions of guns, I know that. ut this gun will never be used to kill kids in schools, kill people in a movie theater, kill people at an office party or at any other place of mass shootings. This gun will never be found by a child who accidently shoots a friend. … It will never be stolen and used to commit a crime or used to threaten a family in a domestic violence situation.”
It won’t ever be used to thwart a bad person with evil in their heart from hurting innocent children or families. It won’t ever be used to win a championship trophy or teach responsibility. It won’t ever be used to secure freedom or prevent the oppression of its owner. It will never deter a criminal or terrorist attack, either.
The Controversial Times has the whole story.
The anti-gun pastor who spent $3,000 to make sure he would win the a softball team’s raffle of an AR-15 rifle to have “one less gun in the world” is in hot water with police.
Rev. Jeremy Lucas spent $3,000 of his church’s discretionary fund – normally earmarked for helping parishioners pay their rent or utility bills – to buy 150 tickets in a raffle by a local softball team after hearing that the team was using the AR-15 raffle to pay for their trip to the West Regional Tournament in California.
His plan was to buy all of the remaining tickets, win the rifle and have it destroyed.
As we noted above, his plan failed spectacularly on many levels.
One nugget we found at the end:
Kevin Starrett, Executive Director of the Oregon Firearms Federation wrote a letter to the OSP, the Lake Oswego Police Department and 30 state lawmakers, pointing out the clear violation of the law.
“If the pastor is prosecuted, it will demonstrate the idiocy of the law and the people who passed it,” Starrett said. “If the pastor is not prosecuted, it will demonstrate that anti-gun liberals are above the law and it was only intended to hurt the average gun owner, against whom it could be selectively enforced.”
Nationally syndicated conservative talk-show host Lars Larson also weighed in with a letter to Lake Oswego City Council members, saying the purchase may meet the criteria of a “straw purchase” under federal law, a crime that carries a 10 year mandatory prison sentence.
He won’t be prosecuted. The leftist narrative will be the end justified the means.
Using his flawed logic, wouldn’t you go out and buy four such rifles directly, so that you could destroy four of them?
N.(o) S.(hit) What a dumb ass
As John says: symbolism over substance. He is a scoundrel stealing $ meant for the poor so he could feel better about destoying a perfectly good rifle.
In Champaign County, our State’s Attorney, Julia Reitz would not prosecute.
She would probably give this idiot a big hug and encourage him to do it again.
His congregation needs to take the $3000 out of his check,
A Phleger wanna be. When the truth comes out why Phather Phaker really won’t leave that church, in violation of the rules, it may be a surprise. Did you know most of the “flock” isn’t catholic. They just found another sucker to give them another form of subsidy for their existence.