Salon seems to be the new preferred media outlet for the Brady bunch as they seek a platform to deliver their unpopular, out-of-style message of universal disarmament in the face of bad guys. They ran a piece by Philip Gulley (pictured above) in which he admits he was wrong about the Second Amendment. Who is Philip Gulley and why should we care what he thinks?
A Quaker pastor, author and speaker, Philip Gulley received his masters of divinity degree from Christian Theological Seminary, and is co-pastor of Fairfield Friends Meeting in Camby, Indiana. He is also the author of “Living the Quaker Way: Timeless Wisdom for a Better Life Today” by Convergent Books.
So, we’ve got a pacifist lecturing us on how we don’t need the right to self-defense.
Yeah. Pretty big words for a guy who depends upon good guys with guns to keep the peace so he and his flock don’t get fleeced – and worse.
Here’s a teaser from his pathetic screed chock full of well-worn cliches so thoroughly devoid of factual basis. Warning: He uses race baiting, bigoted stereotypes and all sorts of bait-and-switch in his missive.
I was wrong about the Second Amendment: Why my view of guns totally changed
I used to think calls for gun safety reform were overblown. Then the world changed — and with it everything I knew…Before Noah Pozner died, I thought there was nothing wrong with the Second Amendment a little common sense couldn’t fix. After he died, I’ve come to believe “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms” no longer promotes our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but daily threatens them…
…these days the NRA reminds me of the folks who packed the courtroom of the Scopes monkey trial, fighting to preserve a worldview no thoughtful person espoused.
…They remind me of the Confederates who fought to defend the indefensible, sacrificing the lives of others in order to preserve some dubious right they alone valued. They would rather die, armed to the teeth, than live in a nation free of guns and their bitter harvest. You can have my gun when you pry it from around my cold, dead fingers, their bumper stickers read. How empty their lives must be if life without a gun is not worth living….
…We can be great again, but not without addressing the fear and ignorance that feed our gun culture, for no nation can ascend until it cures the virus of violence. We cannot let the most fearful among us set our nation’s tone, lest we descend to that sorry state we labored centuries to rise above. It is time for America to grow up, to become adults, so that children like Noah Pozner have a fighting chance to do the same.
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