Doug In a Bottle

Some people want us to "get in step" with the rest of the world with regards to firearms. Some people would have us follow the footsteps of the UK, Australia, Mexico, China, Germany, and Canada etc etc... This guy disagrees.

Seems like an odd question, right? Well, think about it before you answer. I mean, safety is a good thing right? Think about how hard we try to secure comfort and peace. Think about how many barriers we install to insulate us from things that might invade our homes. Think about the ways we keep our children from the latest Acronym-Free toy (right now its BPA). These are all good things. We live in a world saturated in the common grace of a good and wonderful God who deserves every ounce of energy returned in praise. But .... always a but... we live in a world that is not without flaws. In fact, we live in a fallen world that more often than not echoes from its avalanches and screams from its hurricanes that there is something very wrong that needs to be made right. In a nation obsessed with safety we advocate wars on drugs that only build criminal empires, we advocate wars on terror that only propagate hatred for us, we advocate wars on poverty that only makes the chasm ...

I am an American citizen. I was born in the 80’s. I grew up watching the explosion of information that we call the internet. I watched family telephones be disconnected from walls and cellular variants distributed to individuals. Every day I get up and check my email using broad band business class internet. Right now I type this on one of three monitors on a singular computer system.  I live in this world where a powerful computer lives in my pocket. I call it a telephone but it does a lot more than make calls, in fact, making calls is one of the least spectacular features it has to offer. Lately I’ve nurtured a slight addiction to “Bad Piggies”, an angry birds spin-off game.  You know, that other thing I was slightly addicted to for a while. This is the world I live in so when I hear questions like “Do you really need that?” I really do stop and think about the answer. Sometimes I think the answer gets more thought than the question. Do you need that cheese...