Church cancels teen gun giveaway
Posted: July 14th, 2008 | Author: Ryan Harkness | Filed under: Religion |I’ve never been able to figure out why religion and guns go hand and hand so often. From KOCO.com:
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.
Because religion and rural areas go together. The relationship isn’t religion/guns. It’s rural/religion and rural/guns.
Actually, that sounds like a really fun day, if you take all the god stuff out of it. As a teen, I would have totally dug that, and would have hoped to win the AR-15. Good plinking gun with loads of options.
I won a shotgun at a national Wild Turkey Federation get together when I was like 10. It was not a religious thing but like t3k said a rural thing.
Ever the skeptic, I did a little digging.
From what I can tell, everything out there is a copy of the original KOCO story. The church has stated that the below two points are false, and that they have a donated shotgun that will be given away.
*False statements: 1) That a gun had been purchased for $800; 2) That the local TV channel intervened to keep us from giving away an AR-15.
http://www.whbcyouthconference.org/?c=events
Personally, I don’t see the big deal about giving away a shotgun whose purpose is lawful hunting or target shooting. As previously said, parts of the country including rural areas tend to have a strong hunting culture. Now if it had really been an assault rifle, I think we may have had something to bitch about.
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