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Taylor Rose
WASHINGTON – The highest levels of the U.S. government are fomenting “civil unrest” that soon could leave “blood in our streets,” a key Christian pastor said Tuesday at a pro-Second Amendment rally in Washington.
Rev. William Owens Jr., president of the Coalition of African-American Pastors and leader of God, Guns & the Constitution, said America has in many ways has passed the point of no return and its citizens will have to be “chastised” before they awaken to the reality of their situation.
His goal now is “strengthening the [righteous] remnant.”
At the foot of the Capitol Tuesday, Owens was joined by other leaders to pledge to protect the Second Amendment and the Christian principles of America’s founding.
Owens was joined by Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America; Eric Pratt, the group’s communications director; Day Gardner, founder and president of the National Black Pro-Life Union on Capitol Hill; and William Cook, founder and executive director of the Black Robe Regiment.
“From what we see in our mail, hear from our members, we are at the line in the sand moment,” Larry Pratt told WND after the event.
The leaders said their assembly was “in response to President Obama’s proposal of 23 executive actions to curb gun violence.”
Larry Pratt said Obama’s moves have “renewed and even awakened … the determination to get politically involved and resist what is being crammed down our throat by an illegitimate government.”
“The entire federal government acts as if we have no Constitution at all, as if there were no limits to anything they could do,” he said. “It never seems to cross their mind that there are very few things they are allowed to do. We are dealing with a systemic problem of illegitimacy across all branches of government.”
Owens said the goal of today’s event was “to raise awareness that you wouldn’t have a Constitution without guns and you wouldn’t have the need to protect this land without God.”
“So you have to have God in the midst of every picture that exists,” he said.
Owens said the problem with violence doesn’t rest with guns but with people.
He believes America is dealing with an “evil.”
It is not “guns and not ink pens, it is not cars, it is evil,” he said. “For when we forsake God’s purpose for why this country was formed and for why it is here, anything can be turned into evil, including an ink pen.”
He said, “Ink pens sign a lot of laws that are evil.”
Owens challenged a common gun-control mantra of needing “common sense gun control” such as restricting the size of magazines.
“What is common sense? [The anti-gun left] want to take a word and say, ‘This is what common sense is.’”
He called for a return to the faith of the Founders. Continue Reading :
WASHINGTON – The highest levels of the U.S. government are fomenting “civil unrest” that soon could leave “blood in our streets,” a key Christian pastor said Tuesday at a pro-Second Amendment rally in Washington.
Rev. William Owens Jr., president of the Coalition of African-American Pastors and leader of God, Guns & the Constitution, said America has in many ways has passed the point of no return and its citizens will have to be “chastised” before they awaken to the reality of their situation.
His goal now is “strengthening the [righteous] remnant.”
At the foot of the Capitol Tuesday, Owens was joined by other leaders to pledge to protect the Second Amendment and the Christian principles of America’s founding.
Owens was joined by Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America; Eric Pratt, the group’s communications director; Day Gardner, founder and president of the National Black Pro-Life Union on Capitol Hill; and William Cook, founder and executive director of the Black Robe Regiment.
“From what we see in our mail, hear from our members, we are at the line in the sand moment,” Larry Pratt told WND after the event.
The leaders said their assembly was “in response to President Obama’s proposal of 23 executive actions to curb gun violence.”
Larry Pratt said Obama’s moves have “renewed and even awakened … the determination to get politically involved and resist what is being crammed down our throat by an illegitimate government.”
“The entire federal government acts as if we have no Constitution at all, as if there were no limits to anything they could do,” he said. “It never seems to cross their mind that there are very few things they are allowed to do. We are dealing with a systemic problem of illegitimacy across all branches of government.”
Owens said the goal of today’s event was “to raise awareness that you wouldn’t have a Constitution without guns and you wouldn’t have the need to protect this land without God.”
“So you have to have God in the midst of every picture that exists,” he said.
Owens said the problem with violence doesn’t rest with guns but with people.
He believes America is dealing with an “evil.”
It is not “guns and not ink pens, it is not cars, it is evil,” he said. “For when we forsake God’s purpose for why this country was formed and for why it is here, anything can be turned into evil, including an ink pen.”
He said, “Ink pens sign a lot of laws that are evil.”
Owens challenged a common gun-control mantra of needing “common sense gun control” such as restricting the size of magazines.
“What is common sense? [The anti-gun left] want to take a word and say, ‘This is what common sense is.’”
He called for a return to the faith of the Founders. Continue Reading :
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