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2019-04-07 Olde Tyme Religion
Pope blames US, Europe for selling weapons in war zones
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Posted by Fred 2019-04-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 Yes, gun running is certainly a problem, but are there no problems of an internal nature the Pontiff might wish to resolve before venturing outside the church ?
Posted by Besoeker 2019-04-07 05:36||   2019-04-07 05:36|| Front Page Top

#2 but are there no problems of an internal nature the Pontiff might wish to resolve before venturing outside the church ?

Or even his own compound.
Posted by Skidmark 2019-04-07 09:11||   2019-04-07 09:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Is there some old book that mentions the mote in thine own eye?
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-04-07 09:12||   2019-04-07 09:12|| Front Page Top

#4 I seem ti recall that Cain killed Abel with a rock he picked up from the ground — no outside arms sellers needed.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-04-07 10:29||   2019-04-07 10:29|| Front Page Top

#5  the pope said that the reason why there are so many wars around the world is that "the rich Europe and America sell weapons ... used to kill children and kill people.

Do you even know any actual people, Francis? Twenty Five years ago in Rwanda, a half-million or so people were massacred. No doubt there were Western firearms involved, but a good bit of the violence was done in the old-fashioned way - by hand. With machetes.

People are determined and resourceful. Do you honestly think that taking Western weapons will make violence go away? That people won't pick up the nearest thing handy and use it on the object of their anger?

I'm going to start calling this The Gun Grabber's Fallacy:
People kill each other with X.
If we remove all X,
then they will stop killing each other.

For a real-world example, see Britain were after guns were banned, people switched to knives. Expect to see pipes and other blunt objects become the instrument of choice after knives are gone.
Posted by SteveS 2019-04-07 10:32||   2019-04-07 10:32|| Front Page Top

#6 That's the lib position. I own plenty of weapons and I'm at war with no one.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-04-07 12:38||   2019-04-07 12:38|| Front Page Top

#7 If there is any weapon that has facilitated numerous 3rd world wars, it is the ubiquitous AK-47.

Those did not come from any Western country. Red Jorge knows that.
Posted by The peanut gallery 2019-04-07 13:30||   2019-04-07 13:30|| Front Page Top

#8 No mention of Russia in Francis’ remarks.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2019-04-07 13:32||   2019-04-07 13:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Clown.
Posted by newc 2019-04-07 16:09||   2019-04-07 16:09|| Front Page Top

#10 Most of the weapons are Eastern Bloc - no mention of Russia and other former soviet bloc nations, as well as china.

Francis is an idiot. He seems oblivious to the fact that these tribal people have been killing each other for centuries, with swords and knives, long before the modern weapons came around.
Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2019-04-07 19:29||   2019-04-07 19:29|| Front Page Top

#11 The Vatican is a lot closer to the source of AKs than Washington DC. Know what I'm sayin' Francis, you walking, talking jackass?
Posted by Cretle Big Foot4791 2019-04-07 20:35||   2019-04-07 20:35|| Front Page Top

#12 "The rich Europe and America" are what burns his candles and kiss his effing finger. Without them he'd be out of business.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-04-07 21:05||   2019-04-07 21:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Where Christianity flourishes there is usually peace. But Christianity seems to be a foreign topic to this fake.
Posted by Neville Dark Lord of the Wee Folk7365 2019-04-07 21:10||   2019-04-07 21:10|| Front Page Top

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