However, I wanted to focus on Pratt's alleged Christianity. He has a long, rambling piece on how God wants us to be armed. Pratt does the usual, takes the Bible out of context, equates the USA and the Constitution with the Bible and uses the Old Testament verses when people where under attack by other nations as legitimacy that we should be able to have any kind of weapon we want. Pratt reminds me of the verse in Proverbs 12:15 about fools. He is doing backflips to promote his pro-gun agenda and will use anything, including God to promote his viewpoint.
There is another issue with Pratt in that he apparently has no issue with courting extremists--from Wikipedia-
'In October 1992, at Estes Park, Colorado, Pratt addressed a three-day meeting of neo-Nazis and Christian Identity adherents organized by Pete Peters in the wake of the Ruby Ridge incident.[3][4][5] Pratt shared the stage with Richard Butler and Louis Beam. In 1994, Pratt unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Nevada State Assembly as a Libertarian, winning 27% of the vote.[6] In the 1996 U.S. presidential election, Pratt served as a co-chairman of Pat Buchanan's campaign. In February 1996, the liberal Center for Public Integrity issued a report that claimed Pratt spoke at meetings organized by white supremacist and militia leaders. Pratt denied any tie to racism, calling the report a smear aimed at hurting Buchanan before the New Hampshire primary election. However, Pratt was forced to resign his position with the Buchanan campaign.[7][8][9] Pratt also addressed delegates at the 1996 national convention of the U.S. Taxpayers Party[10] (renamed the Constitution Party in 1999). In Northern Ireland in 2004, Pratt accompanied loyalist and paramilitary sympathizer Willie Frazer on a tour of South Armagh whilst calling for the Protestant population to be routinely armed.[11]"
Pratt hangs out with extreme rightwing pro-gun extremists. Surprising that he is one himself. Pratt feels that people should be armed to threaten and intimidate elected officials. This seems in contradiction to Romans 13 in which we are told to obey our government and pay taxes! So, threatening politicians because you don't like their positions would be un-Biblical.
And, instead of re-evaluating themselves or going to the Lord in prayer, Pratt and the Gun Owners of America use the "blame the victim response" in the wake of the latest mass shooting spree. The paraniod fantasy that if someone would have been armed, less or no people would have been killed may make for great movies, but just isn't true.
I just love this picture from GOA:
This just shows the lack of logic (or stupidity) in the organization. Because all you need to add to each sentence is "people with guns...kill people"... and people with pencils misspell words and drunk people in cars cause drunk driving and Rosie O'Donnell eating too much mad her fat. The GOA acts as if there is no trigger, so to speak, for any of these things to happen. There is a cause and effect and all of them include human interaction. It's not as if guns hang out by themselves, minding their own business and then one gun decides to go on a tirade. It's due to allowing basically any unstable person to be armed to the teeth by organizations such as Pratt's GOA.
In the end, we should realize what Pratt truly is and that is the Biblical version of a fool.
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