Church Cancels Teen Gun Giveaway

[RamboLiberal]

Source: KOCO

An Oklahoma church canceled a controversial gun giveaway for teenagers at a weekend youth conference.

Windsor Hills Baptist had planned to give away a semiautomatic assault rifle until one of the event's organizers was unable to attend.

The church’s youth pastor, Bob Ross, said it’s a way of trying to encourage young people to attend the event. The church expected hundreds of teenagers from as far away as Canada.

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A video on the church Web site shows the shooting competition from last year’s conference. A gun giveaway was part of the event last year. This year, organizers included it in their marketing.

“I don’t want people thinking ‘My goodness, we’re putting a weapon in the hand of somebody that doesn’t respect it who are then going to go out and kill,'” said Ross. “That’s not at all what we’re trying to do.”

Read more: http://www.koco.com/news/16860079/detail.html

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WWJS - What Would Jesus Shoot. I'm a gun owner but on this I still say WTF on giving to a teen! I could even understand an air rifle but a real AR-15!

[Ian David]

1. Goin' on down to the gun sale at the church!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x157103

[Deja Q]

2. Wow. That's bright.

About as bright as a 2 watt light bulb, which only goes to show how dim some people are when it comes to addressing the young generation that thinks MTV, Survivor, and GTA4 are how to live...

[happyslug]

21. MY LED 2 watt bulb is very bright.

It is terrible, technology is making the phase "As bright as a 2 watt light bulb" obsolete.

[jody]

3. Where in the article did it say AR-15?. Second an assault rifle is fully automatic & covered in

TITLE 26, CHAPTER 53—MACHINE GUNS, DESTRUCTIVE DEVICES, AND CERTAIN OTHER FIREARMS

Looks like incompetent reporting catering to hysterical gun-grabbers.

[RamboLiberal]

5. Watch the station's video - it says it there - oh and look at little pic

And while it is legal and usually I support those who want to own an AR-15 even this gun owner thinks it's not a good giveaway for a teen church event!

BTW they're saving it for next year's giveaway. They didn't pull it b/c of publicity but b/c they're ex-Green Beret minister is out of action this year due to injury.

Oh and explain why that bill that lapsed was called the "Assault Weapons Ban"? You and I both know AR-15s are referred to in Pop Culture as assault weapons fairly or not.

[jody]

8. The article said the rifle cost $800 and it appears the minister did not know an AR-15 from other

semi-automatic rifles.

The rifle appearing several times in the video clip appears to be a variant of a Ruger Mini-14.

[RamboLiberal]

10. Blame the church if they got the gun wrong

And the Ruger they show is from last year's video of that shoot. You can buy a AR-15 for $800. And if they paid $800 for a Ruger Mini 14 they may have overpaid.

But imagine the outcry if a black church did this!

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. Had you been paying attention, you'd have noted that the video

was of clips from last year's shooting competition - and one of those kids was shooting on full auto. The advertised weapon, on their web site, was an AR15. Oh, and the pastor, former Green Beret, probably knows an AR15 from a Mini-14.

But plese, jump right in and show us you don't know what you are talking about.

[tburnsten]

26. N?T

[JeanGrey]

17. We had a gun club in high school. Kids kept rifles in their

lockers.

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. It IS an AR-15, and journalistically it is quicker and simpler to say

'assault rifle' than 'assault rifle styled weapon' - which is what the AR15 is.

It also specified 'semi-automatic', just in case there was any confusion.

But don't let that stop you getting hysterical.

[a la izquierda]

15. Hysterical gun-grabbers? In Oklahoma??

You really oughta watch the news out here. The LAST people the local news caters to are hysterical gun-grabbing types. The level of offense I experience on a daily basis reading/watching the news has become a common joke to my husband. In Oklahoma, the journalists do not give a rats' arse about folks likely to get hysterical about anything but God, gay-bashing, people speaking Spanish and women having abortions.

Or, at least that's my interpretation of the OKC news. Tulsa folks can chime in.

edited to add something

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

24. Don't you think that language is excessively polarizing? Bill Clinton warned against it. -nt

[Tunkamerica]

4. Bob Ross !?

He always seemd so peaceful. And I thought he had died.

[BrotherBuzz]

7. I thought Bob Ross was up there sitting on Happy Clouds, too

[Divine Discontent]

6. Jesus wasn't packin....

these people have NO shame & clearly no sense of decency regarding how they should encourage youth in a peaceful mindset! Of course, I'm sure they're extremely anti-gay also, so nice of them to give guns to people they brainwash to hate on GLBT with...

More at --- www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable

[MercutioATC]

12. Jesus had magical powers.

If I had magical powers, I wouldn't have a need for a gun, either.

[Divine Discontent]

13. now this is true... :)

but he never used them to harm. only to heal or see or create things. I am appalled that a "church" thinks giving a semi-automatic to a teen is the right thing to do...
:puke:

[harmonicon]

14. you left out the best part!!

"Friday evening, Ross said the gun giveaway had been canceled. Pastor emeritus Jim Vineyard, who ran the event, injured his foot and wouldn’t be able to attend."

[LuckyLib]

19. Pastor Emeritus Jim Vineyard? Ha! Nobody could create shit like this story

and have anybody print it!

[paparush]

16. Gee..what could possibly have gone wrong?

Get saved, get a Glock?

[regnaD kciN]

18. I guess they think Jesus REALLY said...

..."Put away your sword, for all who take up the sword shall die by the sword. Instead, take this super-cool AK-47!" :crazy:

I'm now waiting for the news item about an Orthodox Synagogue holding raffle for a smoked ham... :sarcasm:

[Pavulon]

20. From Same Site "man's nose bitten off..

at BK drive through. Guess someone did not have it their way

http://www.koco.com/news/16846625/detail.html

[depakid]

22. "A day before this story broke, a 12-year-old John White was accidentally shot"

in the head and killed in Oklahoma County by a 14-year-old friend who had easy access to his grandfather's loaded weapons, local news stations reported.

"We would still have John with us today if people had taken more care, if they had used gun locks or gun safes," says Kim Proc, John White's great aunt.

Proc says officials told them they confiscated at least seven loaded guns from the home where White was that day, all owned by the 14-year-old's grandfather, Channel 52 KSBI-TV reported.

John White's family is determined to make sure his death impacts the way guns are kept in homes by changing the law.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Church_lures_teenagers_with_assault_rifle_0712.html

Yet another tragedy caused by guns in the household.

[tpsbmam]

23. Sent the gun giveaway article to....

a friend whose ex-husbands kid with his second wife (after my friend) is accused with 2 others of killing a teenager in their class. By most accounts, what would have likely been a fistfight (maybe even baseball bats) if these teens didn't have easy access to guns became a teenager pulling out a semi-automatic weapon and killing another teenager.

[Pavulon]

25. Crime was a Predacessor of this

like drinking and then killing someone with your car. The drinking while driving is a factor?

Here (NC) weapons MUST be secured from minors, failure to do so is criminal.

[Vidar]

27. Blessed Jesus with an Uzi, which Bible did these assholes read?

[Renew Deal]

28. The kids can shoot at happy little trees.

:D

[Skittles]

29. aw......Bob Ross

he was awesome :thumbsup: