the buy back is a good program. for some people, owning guns is a huge liability. personally, I find that keeping my firearms safe is a chore. I think it should be.
considering the violence that minorities demonstrate, removing guns from their environment is a noble effort. On Feb 25, 6:36 pm, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > Dr. Eowyn posted: "Gunphobia in America has now reached the level of > absurdity. CBS St. Louis reports the pastor of a Baptist church in St. > Louis, Missouri, is planning a gun buyback this summer. The kicker is this: > The guns that will be bought back are not real guns, bu" Respond to this > post by replying above this line > New post on *Fellowship of the Minds* > <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/> St. Louis black > church plans a toy gun > buyback<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/st-louis-black-chur...> > by > Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/> > > Gunphobia in America has now reached the level of absurdity. > > CBS St. > Louis<http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2013/02/25/pastor-plans-toy-gun-buyback-p...>reports > the pastor of a Baptist church in St. Louis, Missouri, is planning > a gun buyback this summer. The kicker is this: The guns that will be bought > back are not real guns, but TOY guns. > > Pastor Rodney Francis of the Washington Tabernacle Baptist Church wants to > catch kids before they even think about wielding a weapon. He says parents > would be able to trade their toy guns, swords, or other weapons in for a > more “wholesome” toy. > > Francis says there are no violent video games, gory movies or toy weapons > in his family’s house: “My wife and I feel that we need to do everything we > can to not allow our kids to get exposed to this too early. They’re going > to get exposed to it but we can protect them early on so they don’t get a > distorted view of what those can do to the human body. We want to engage > the culture of violence and one of the strategies that we thought we might > be able to use is to educate parents about the danger of allowing kids to > continue this access to toy guns and playing with toy guns.” > > Washington Tabernacle Baptist > Church<http://washtabmbc.org/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage>(WTBC) > is a black church and the chosen site of Dr. Martin Luther King, > Jr.'s appearance in St. Louis. Rodney Francis (photo below) was named > pastor of WTBC in July > 2010<http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2010/07/19/daily77.html?pa...> > . > > [image: Rodney > Francis]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/rodney-francis.jpg> > > Here's the church's contact info: > > 3200 Washington Avenue > Saint Louis, MO 63103-1219 > Phone: (314) 533-5374 > Fax: 314-533-1725 > Email: [email protected] > > *~Eowyn* > *Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>* | > February 25, 2013 at 2:58 pm | Tags: gun > phobia<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/?tag=gun-phobia>, > Rodney Francis <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/?tag=rodney-francis>, > Washington Tabernacle Baptist > Church<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/?tag=washington-tabernacle-bap...>| > Categories: > Children <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/?cat=34928689>, > Culture War<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/?cat=20812>, > Gun Control/2nd > Amendment<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/?cat=67540812>, > Liberals/Democrats/Left<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/?cat=115894710>, > Obama's America > <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/?cat=12285619>, > Race<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/?cat=1871403>, > United States <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/?cat=5850> | > URL:http://wp.me/pKuKY-kqZ > > > Comment<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/st-louis-black-chur...> > See all > comments<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/st-louis-black-chur...> > > Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage > Subscriptions<https://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=80d8873ee52adffe4e178d01c25562cf...>. > > *Trouble clicking?* Copy and paste this URL into your > browser:http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/st-louis-black-chur... > Thanks for flying with WordPress.com <http://wordpress.com> -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
