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Customer at Lincoln convenience store who shot would-be thief is arrested

The clerk had seen Tilian trying to steal two bottles of liquor, then tried to physically restrain him and prevent him from leaving the store, Lincoln police said.

Jones saw what happened, pulled out a handgun and put herself between Tilian and the exit, police said.

Jones has a permit to carry a concealed weapon, police said.

Tilian broke free from the clerk and ran past Jones, exiting the store. Jones shot Tilian as he left the store, hitting him in the back of the arm and missing the store clerk, who also had exited the store, police said.
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When I first opened this story, I assumed the shooter was somehow directly involved in some kind of physical altercation when the gun went off, or maybe even shot the perpetrator because they were attacking someone. But, to straight up shoot at their back while they run away? Yikes.

 
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Odessa, Texas mass shooting responses tie together evangelical Christians and guns

When guns evoke such positive (even sacred) feelings of security and national belonging, is it any wonder that so many evangelicals refuse to consider gun control?

More surprising to some, perhaps, is the prominence of religious rhetoric and reasoning in leaders’ responses to gun violence. Scholars who’ve studied these issues for the past few years, however, now recognize that we can’t understand our national divisions over guns without recognizing the powerful role religion plays in Americans’ lives.

And while a recent poll shows Republicans’ approval of Trump’s handling of gun policy being among his lowest in the GOP, no religious group has been more steadfast in their support for Trump and taken a more central role in debates over gun violence than evangelical Protestants. This is no coincidence, because when it comes to guns in America, evangelicals stand apart from all other Americans in what they believe causes gun violence, what they think we need to do to stop it and especially how guns make them feel.
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GSG said:
Odessa, Texas mass shooting responses tie together evangelical Christians and guns

When guns evoke such positive (even sacred) feelings of security and national belonging, is it any wonder that so many evangelicals refuse to consider gun control?
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The NRA has done a masterful job of understanding this.  Their marketing towards Christians and making a significant enough number of them believe guns and Christianity are tied together.....is sick.

This is actually a book for sale on Amazon.

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I don't think Texas congressman Dan Crenshaw thought this tweet all the way through. He's apparently loaning out handguns to people who can't be troubled with going through the proper steps to obtain one legally.


 
The NRA Is Suing San Francisco After the City Declared It a Domestic Terrorism Organization


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The National Rifle Association (NRA) has filed a lawsuit against the city of San Francisco less than a week after the city’s lawmakers unanimously passed a resolution declaring it a domestic terrorist organization.

In a lawsuit filed Monday, the NRA alleges San Francisco violated the organization’s First Amendment rights. “The resolution’s ‘terrorist’ designation is a frivolous insult — but San Francisco’s actions pose a non-frivolous constitutional threat,” the lawsuit reads. “The NRA cannot stand by and allow that to happen.”

Lawmakers in San Francisco passed the resolution on Sept. 3 in the wake of mass shootings in Gilroy, Calif., El Paso, Texas, Dayton, Ohio, and Odessa, Texas, that left a combined 41 people dead. It was originally introduced on July 30 by Supervisor Catherine Stefani, who spoke after the resolution was passed unanimously.
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