{"id":127829,"date":"2015-08-28T05:22:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T05:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/28\/guns-madness-no-mass-shootings-are-clearly-about-secular-progressivism.html"},"modified":"2015-08-28T05:22:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T05:22:26","slug":"guns-madness-no-mass-shootings-are-clearly-about-secular-progressivism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/28\/guns-madness-no-mass-shootings-are-clearly-about-secular-progressivism.html","title":{"rendered":"Guns? Madness? No, mass shootings are clearly about secular-progressivism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill&#39;s banner is emblematic of this country&#39;s gun problem:<\/p>\n<p>1. Not <i>all<\/i> crazy people can be topped, therefore <i>no<\/i> crazy people can be stopped, therefore gun deaths must be accepted as inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>2. Firearms can&#39;t be banned [under current Supreme Court interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, as understood by the NRA], therefore gun deaths must be accepted as inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; thus &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>3. Since some gun deaths are inevitable, all gun deaths are inevitable, therefore there is no justification in trying to stop <i>any<\/i> gun deaths. Because madness \/ liberty.<\/p>\n<p>4. Gun deaths cannot be the responsibility of gun-available craziness, thus they are caused by &#8230; um &#8230; secularists and progressives. Because religious fanatics and anti-government conservatives are never involved in gun shootings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2015\/08\/bill-oreilly-blames-rise-of-nihilism-and-secular-progressive-attitudes-for-virginia-journalists-deaths'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/CXNLyIRmqHqpYx6GPrRfj_i5BaYIBl2a3XkgMf_gFWDVyWKwOLSFBIHwGED6wKdvz_WCHoF2-F3i8bH6KqNKF8UvsYmclnpG64q9QzeP1cNehRRxBbYApqHYOIFGZB2l_7A=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2015\/08\/bill-oreilly-blames-rise-of-nihilism-and-secular-progressive-attitudes-for-virginia-journalists-deaths'>Bill O&rsquo;Reilly blames rise of &lsquo;nihilism&rsquo; and &lsquo;secular-progressive&rsquo; attitudes for Virginia journalists&rsquo; deaths<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nFox News host Bill O&#8217;Reilly argued on Thursday that secularism was a contributing factor to the shooting deaths of Alison Parker and Adam Ward, as well as other mass shooting attacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Individuals in this country now, I believe, are tending away f\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Dx9i3NS52hn'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill&#39;s banner is emblematic of this country&#39;s gun problem: 1. Not all crazy people can be topped, therefore no crazy people can be stopped, therefore gun deaths must be accepted as inevitable. 2. Firearms can&#39;t be banned [under current Supreme Court interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, as understood by the NRA], therefore gun deaths must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/28\/guns-madness-no-mass-shootings-are-clearly-about-secular-progressivism.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guns? Madness? 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