Right-wing whackjob David French: The Lawd says everyone should be packing heat.....

Conservative: Jesus Wants Everyone to Have a Giant Gun
David French interprets the Christian Bible as granting everyone a right to self-defense. He suggests that this means that God’s will is that people have access to guns.

January 28, 2013 |


Legislation aimed at reducing gun violence is “a limitation on a God-given right of man that has existed throughout the history of civil society,” according to an article published in the leading conservative opinion journal National Review.

The author, David French, interprets the Christian Bible as granting everyone a right to self-defense. He suggests that this, if true, means that God’s will is that people have access to guns, as they are the means for self defense:



Even if French is right about the Christian view of self-defense (though Jesus did have choice words about “ turning the other cheek“), it’s a logical fallacy to say this implies anything about restrictions on access to guns. Saying that people have a right to defend themselves if attacked isn’t the same thing as saying they should have a right to possess any conceivable means of defending themselves – presumably, French is fine with banning grenade launchers. The burden, instead, is on French to prove that universal background checks or limitations on assault weapon ownership somehow prevent people from defending themselves; to prove, in other words, that gun regulation is actually a restriction on the right of self-defense proper rather than a crime-prevention statute. ......................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/conservative-jesus-wants-everyone-have-giant-gun