Creepy Christian Preacher Wanders Around Texas Town Armed With Assault Rifle to Protest Strictness

[JRLeft]

of Texas Gun Laws


Holcomb told a local news station that the purpose of his conspicuously armed visits to Huntsville businesses is to protest a Texas law which permits gun owners to openly carry long rifles but not handguns.

If you go shopping in Huntsville, Texas, you’re likely to run into a local preacher with an assault rifle slung across his back. Beginning last week, Pastor Terry Holcomb started posting videos of himself wandering into local businesses with an AR-15 Bushmaster rifle — the same weapon used to kill 20 children and six adults in the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting.

In one video, Holcomb wanders about a Walmart for several minutes before he is approached by two store employees and asked to leave. He argues briefly with those two employees until a manager approaches and threatens to call the police if he does not exit the store. Although Holcomb then agrees to leave the store, he refuses a request to stop videoing the engagement — at one point, his camera man claims the recording is for Holcomb’s “safety.”

Holcomb told a local news station that the purpose of his conspicuously armed visits to Huntsville businesses is to protest a Texas law which permits gun owners to openly carry long rifles but not handguns, which must be concealed and can only be carried by individuals with valid concealed carry permits.

Yet, while a legal regime that regulates handguns more strictly than assault rifles may seem counter-intuitive, it is entirely sensible to apply stricter regulations to handguns than to other firearms in light of the fact that handguns are so frequently used to commit homicides. According to the FBI, there were approximately 47,500 murders committed with a gun in 2001-2005. Almost 8 in 10 of these murders were committed with a handgun:

Cont'd at the link: http://www.alternet.org/creepy-christian-preacher-wanders-around-texas-town-armed-assault-rifle-protest-strictness-texas-gun

[onehandle]

1. Gun freaks, as always, improving on their image in society. nt

[Sheldon Cooper]

2. How does he know that one of those paranoid CC gun humpers isn't going to

see him in Walmart, think he's about to open fire, and start blasting away at him so the gun humper can be the Hero That Prevented a Mass Shooting?

These people are fucking nuts.

[GreenStormCloud]

11. You are being silly.

The gun is slung over his shoulder, not drawn and ready to fire. Shooting him while his gun is like that would be like shooting a man whose gun is in a holster and then trying to claim self-defense - it won't fly.

[billh58]

3. And yet another

"responsible" gun owner demonstrates irrational and anti-social behavior. Makes you proud to be an American doesn't it?

[EC]

4. The cameraman is there for His safety?

But isn't that why he thinks he needs the gun? Maybe he's a paranoid schizophrenic nut that shouldn't even have a gun.

[ileus]

5. I doubt it's the same weapon used in Newton

More likely the same make/model.

Odd it doesn't appear to have optics or even rear iron sights....not even cheap-o pop up magpul style sight.

[Paladin]

12. Oh, that just makes all the difference in the world!

Not even a cheap-o pop up magpul style sight? Mother-FUCKER! Thanks so much for this stunning revelation. Carry on, reverend.....

[MotherPetrie]

6. Pinky Fingernail

[FSogol]

7. No one wants to touch on the "Christian Preacher" part of this story? His actions are so similar

to Jesus's teachings that I can't believe it.

[Brigid]

8. Yeah, Jesus was famous for carrying around a rifle dontcha know.

[GreenStormCloud]

10. Some of the disciples carried swords and Jesus never rebuked them for being armed.

He did rebuke Peter's attack on the High Priest's servant. But that wasn't self-defense on Peter's part and could have escalated a bad situation and get all the disciples killed.

[Paladin]

13. What's that from? The Gospel according to Saint LaPierre?

[Jenoch]

14. Matthew 26:51

[GreenStormCloud]

15. Luke 22:36-38

36 He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. 37 It is written: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors’; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.”

38 The disciples said, “See, Lord, here are two swords.”

“That’s enough!” he replied.

The disciples ALREADY had a couple of swords. Obviously they routinely carried them, without rebuke from Jesus. There is no comment in the rest of the NT about them being armed because it was fairly common at the time.

[Paladin]

16. None of that "turn the other cheek" shit from Tactical Jesus, right? (nt)

[GreenStormCloud]

17. "Turn the other cheek" is often misunderstood.

A smite on the cheek is not a blow to actually harm, but is an insulting blow. In modern terms it would be a slap on the cheek, which is normally understood to mean a challenge to fight. In such cases Christians are to refuse the challenge to fight. However, a genuine violent attack may be met with such force as is needed to defend oneself. Absolute pacifism in the face of violent evil will allow evil to rule.

Notice that Jesus got violent in the temple when he chased out the moneychangers. Also, Jesus in Revelations kicks ass.

[Paladin]

19. I feel sorry for you and your family. (nt)

[bullwinkle428]

21. The Rambo-ization of Jesus is kind of the ultimate double-facepalm

trigger for me.

[Paladin]

23. The true object of their worship is guns. Genuinely sad. (nt)

[GreenStormCloud]

22. No. You are feeling self-righteous and calling it sympathy.

I haven't been in a fight since 1965. I have walked away from several. I do have a Concealed Handgun License and do carry when I am out of the house, except when at work. For me to carry at work would be a felony, so the gun stays in the car. If necessary to save my own life or the life of my family, I will use it.

Wife has a CHL also. She has twice used her gun to prevent herself from being mugged. No shots fired, would be mugger ran away each time. After the two incidents which were only a few weeks apart, she was never bothered again during the three years that she went to work there, although another employee was mugged. Word got out on the street that she was not an easy victim.

You seem to believe that we should place the life of an attacker as of greater value than our own lives. We solidly reject that. My life is of greater value to me than the life of a common violent street criminal.

[KamaAina]

9. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!

[Initech]

18. I hate to stereotype but is every pastor named Terry batshit crazy?

[Redneck_Dem]

20. Scary looking gun in public?

How come they don't tell us how many people were killed by the Revs actions?