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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:45 PM
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If 'they' came to get your guns & bibles, which would you give up first?
Edited on Mon Apr-19-10 04:47 PM by Philosoraptor
My idiot born again brother swears up and down that President Obama is coming for his guns and bibles. He's always had bibles, but last year he bought his first gun when President Obama took office.

Me? You can have my bible, I don't give a damn, and I'm smart enough to know that no one is coming for either one.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:47 PM
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1. Bible or New Testament?
:ducking:
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:47 PM
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2. Bible.
Edited on Mon Apr-19-10 04:47 PM by sakabatou
I don't own any guns, but they can take the Bible.
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Sherman A1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 06:25 PM
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31. Don't have either so no concern to me
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:48 PM
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3. What if the gun was kept in a hollowed-out Bible?
Would that be considered a "Two-fer?" :shrug:
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JBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:11 PM
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21. Or if it was a bible gun:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QfASxt-X8sU/SiRBMhCOUFI/AAAAAAAAAF0/YtlmC37PYRo/s400/BibleGun+copy.jpg
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Statistical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:47 PM
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28. Sweet. I was thinking that but the visual just rocks! n/t
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:49 PM
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Well, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't get any bibles
I don't think there's one in the house.

And while there are a fair number of guns around here, most of them are antiques, a lot of them muzzleloaders or cap and ball pistols that nobody would be interested in confiscating anyway.
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X_Digger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:49 PM
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4. Take all my books.. now you'll get my kindle from my cold, dead, hands. n/t
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:49 PM
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5. I guess my Bibles
Since I don't own any guns. My midget porn collection, though: Cold dead hands, buddy.
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BulletproofLandshark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:50 PM
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6. I don't have any of either.
But if they came for my PS3, there would be trouble.
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LonePirate Donating Member (898 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:01 PM
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17. Same here. I have no guns or Bibles to take; but to hell if they try to take my PS3!
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:51 PM
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7. No one is taking my Satanic Bible.
Unless they have a gun on me. I'd probably give it up in that case.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:51 PM
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8. Gun. The bible has acres of great poetry in it. And they can take my poetry
out of my cold dead hands. :)
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ismnotwasm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:55 PM
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9. Bibles are so mass produced
I hardly think 'coming for them' would be in any way successful. In fact, I'm starting to suspect a secret bible breeding program using clone therapy.

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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:57 PM
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13. What about a background check & 10 day waiting period for bibles?
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Libertyfirst Donating Member (583 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 08:34 PM
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41. Good one!
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JaneQPublic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:55 PM
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10. A map to stores that carry guns & Bibles, since they'd find neither at my house. (nt)
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:20 PM
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23. Same thing here
They'd be sorely disappointed and would have to break something just out of frustration.
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:56 PM
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11. I'll borrow my neighbor's bible and give it to 'them'
maybe I'll give them a Christopher Hitchens book. Would that do?
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:57 PM
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12. I don't have either so it's not a problem for me.
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dave29 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:58 PM
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14. this gave me an idea. Bibles for guns programs. Arm the Jehovah's witnesses
win win for everyone
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Fla_Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:59 PM
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15. The Constitution
cause obviously if 'they' are coming for either, it doesn't mean squat anymore. :smoke:
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:00 PM
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16. When they come for my microwave oven, that's when there will be a fight
:nuke:
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:01 PM
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18. They can have whatever of each that they find in my house.
I'll even help them look.
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AnArmyVeteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:04 PM
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19. Have you seen how books can be hollowed out to hold a gun?
A handgun can be nicely hidden inside a Bible that has been hollowed out in shape of a gun. I guess that would be a right wingers dream to have a deadly weapon combined with a book supposedly teaching peace and love.

Are there any songs about hypocrisy? If there is one it should be played every time a right winger speaks.
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footinmouth Donating Member (630 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:05 PM
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20. No Bibles or guns here
Please, I beg you, let us keep our iPods.
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:16 PM
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22. Now that's a toughie.
But I guess I'd give up the guns first -- since there are none.

But I do think that there's a bible around somewhere. The reason I'd want to wait on giving that up is that I'd have to look for it.

;-)
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:22 PM
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24. Since I would never, ever own a gun they could take my Bible.
Bibles are readily available online.
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Pavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 06:27 PM
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32. Yep, buying guns is actually a heavily regulated event. replete with paperwork
background check and in some backwards areas waiting periods.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 08:39 PM
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43. That's bad? It should be like... what? -nt
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DeschutesRiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:23 PM
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25. I've had guns for over 30 years, and not lost a bit of my liberal leaning nature
And while I've read a Bible, and even done a comparative religion class in back in the day, I have no use for such a thing as organized religion, nor any interest whatsoever in org.religion. I am spiritual, but that isn't the same scheme.

Since the gun is mere tool, I am not giving that up anymore than any other tool I use. My spirituality requires no book, or adherence to a story told by others, nor any physical object to achieve its end, and therefore wouldn't be subject to being taken away from me anyway.
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 08:36 PM
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42. Well said.
I don't personally own a bible, though I have access to some. But if I did, I'd certainly hand that over before I'd even think of letting someone touch either my shotgun or my rifle.
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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 05:33 AM
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44. Same here, liberals have guns too
They just don't wave em' around at rallies and live under the delusion that liberals are coming to confiscate them. Fucking morons.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:43 PM
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26. They can have both! n/t
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:46 PM
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27. What bible?
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:48 PM
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29. They better not take my Bible
I'll NEVER be able to get that table level again.
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:57 PM
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30. I don't have any bibles and I'm keeping my guns, thanks. nt
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 06:29 PM
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33. As long as they don't take my mythology collection, I'm OK
Frankly, it wouldn't bother me too much to get rid of my gun OR my Bibles, but if they too all the Bibles, it would leave a hole in my mythology/religion shelf. The lack of a gun would be a nuisance if a rattler showed up near the house. The .22 is a little small to stop an aggressive dog, so it has not been much use recently.
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 06:30 PM
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34. They may take my non-existent firearms...
They may take my non-existent firearms, place them in a non-existent warehouse for safekeeping, so that I am a non-existent threat in this non-existent world your friends lives in...
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Old Troop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 07:19 PM
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35. What if they came for your perfect ravioli?
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 07:20 PM
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36. Happy to give up the guns, since I don't have or want any!
He could take the bible, too. I'd just get another, lol.
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Ohio Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 07:21 PM
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37. I'm not giving up either!
oh wait... I don't have either.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 07:23 PM
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38. Ok, now I have something new to talk about when he comes here next Mardi Gras
:hi: I'll ask him which Jesus he prays to now. :D
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deaniac21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 07:27 PM
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39. I have a .45 acp that actually is a bible. It's my favorite book.
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tburnsten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 07:30 PM
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40. Well, since it would be highly illegal fro the government to go after either
Absent some specific cause, such as the owner becoming a felon or assaulting people with Bibles, I would say it's a pretty meaningless question.



I'll play though, Bible, because I'd rather spend an afternoon at the range than reading a Bible any day.

Even a snowy one.
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JNelson6563 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 06:12 AM
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45. I have no guns
and I have a bible that has many post-its marking horrors and contradictions. If they promised to read those little notes, they could have the bible.

Julie
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mwb970 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 06:30 AM
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46. No guns in my house.
Edited on Tue Apr-20-10 06:30 AM by mwb970
I do have a Scofield Study Bible, but the fundies wouldn't like it: it's all eggheady and scholarly and stuff, with lots of footnotes, cross-references, alternate translations, etc. I doubt that they would even know what it was.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 06:33 AM
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47. I guess I'm fucked as I have neither a gun or a bible
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W_HAMILTON Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-20-10 06:35 AM
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48. Take 'em both.
I don't need either.
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