#gun use

[technowarden]

what animal could you take in a fight?

In hand to paw? Famously, not a bear...

But like, maybe a small cougar, or a big possum.

I think most people think they're more capable than they actually are, when most animals spend far more time in life or death situations than you do. That's why you want to stay the fuck away from them, and have beat spray and guns when you're in places where you might get caught out.

[thybrotherskeeper]

*A smile creeped back onto Heart's face. They shrugged*

(Well. You tried!)

*And with that, they pulled the trigger*

[onehand-oneheart]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Whumptober day 23: stalking

Warnings: stalking, gun use

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: F/M

Fandom: The Rookie (TV 2018)

Relationship: Tim Bradford/Lucy Chen

Characters: Lucy Chen (The Rookie), Tim Bradford, Kojo the Dog (The Rookie), John Nolan (The Rookie), Angela Lopez, Nyla Harper, Celina Juarez

Additional Tags: Whumptober 2023, Stalking, Established Tim Bradford/Lucy Chen, Worried Tim Bradford, Undercover Lucy Chen (The Rookie), Protective Angela Lopez, Protective Nyla Harper, Hurt Lucy Chen (The Rookie), Angst with a Happy Ending, BAMF Lucy Chen (The Rookie), Manipulation, Moving In Together

Summary:

Lucy has the feeling of being watched. After having hidden it from Tim, thinking it's just paranoia after her latest UC mission, he convinces her to check her apartment for bugs. Then it turns out that she should have listened to her instincts from the start.

[condemned-to-eternity]

*BANG!*

*A single breath escapes his throat, confirmation that he has not yet fallen over dead. It's almost disappointing*

*They can't hear anything. Actually, that's not true. They can hear one thing: a loud, piercing ringing. It fills their ears in their entirety, silencing everything else around them, even their own voice*

*He knows he says something — the pain that came with trying to communicate making it all too obvious — but he's not sure what. He's running on autopilot, too shaken up to think clearly, let alone even attempt to form sentences. No, his conscience is stuck as only a spectator. That's probably for the best*

*Heart says something back, their grip on the pistol in hand tightening. The only way Mind can tell that the other responded is the sight of the other's mouth moving, lips pulled back into a snarl, like some sort of animal baring its teeth at a predator*

*It doesn't take long for metal to be pressing deep into their chest as the other threatens to pull the trigger again — or they assume as much*

[stonedopossums]

the first time i shot my uncle’s gun my older cousin was like :) you’re gonna fall over kid :) that gun has a lot of kick :)

but the thing is is that i was stronger than most 13 year old girls and i had also already shot guns before (mostly pistols) so i Knew what to expect and when i didn’t fall over my cousin just sat there like the surprised pikachu meme and i think that was one of the proudest moments of my life

Edit: I also actually hit the tree I was aiming at and my uncle said “hey you may have better aim than Leroy” and i just :) take that you fool.. you utter buffoon :) your dad is praising me on my gunmanship

[christology101]

Christians, violence, guns and the Second Amendment...

Can you please help me see where these folks are coming from - what they see in the Bible I am missing?

No matter how many ways I cut it, no matter how many passages and critical analyses I peruse and probe deeply, these things don’t mesh.  If we consider the New Testament as the Word of God 2.0, moving us forward as a people from the Old Testament 1.0 [where we would still be sacrificing animals of all sorts on altars for cleansing and forgiveness of sin], I cannot come up with an answer.  Well, not beyond the ways of this world, the necessities of this world, the politicized necessity, the lack of faith that we all will die so I need to do whatever I can, including acts of violence, to survive as long as I can [really?], or we need to help no matter what the cost(s)...  How can any Christian be involved in any sort of violence?  From psychological, physiological, physical, verbal, sexual, large scale or small, how can any Christian think guns are something Jesus would be okay with?  How can any Christian commit an act of violence [from usurping someone’s rights to shooting a rubber bullet to giving food instead of teaching to farm and provide education, care, welfare and preparedness for self-sufficiency, and daily acts like insults, verbal put-downs, racism, economic abuses...] and still, without deep repentance and exposing of the sin, call him or her self a Christian?

Also, how can one attach oneself to a worldly doctrine like the Second Amendment and promote it above the lives of others or use it and its attachments as claims to commit acts of violence in order to protect others and do so in any way in Christ’s name, as a Christian?  As it looks to an outsider looking in, it is idol worship, putting something, anything, before God’s Word.  

Now, to be fair, I have heard a lot of arguments related to these very tough and very American issues, but none have matched the Word of God.  Certainly none has the mark of a Christian ethic.  The “protect the children” thing is a great idea, but nowhere, other than a brief encounter with the money changers in His temple, does Christ show or promote violence.  If by protecting them, you mean me standing before the danger and willing taking on death in their stead, then sure, that makes perfect sense.  If by protecting, you mean setting up systems that protect them from harm and treat them with care and deep concern, sure.  Violence?  No.  Not ever for any reason.  

If you use violence, for any reason, you must recognize why.  You must reveal to yourself and others that you abandon Christ’s model and hopes for you at that point and step into the world and respond out of the world’s necessities.  Violence simply and always begets more violence.  

I would truly like to hear from people who are well enough read in the Bible and who use, promote, or expound some aspect of violence, gun use, or support for the worldly-wise Second Amendment [man’s laws] - a quote from John Donne’s “Satire III” strikes me here, beyond the obvious Biblical references: “Fool and wretch, wilt thou let thy soul be tied To man's laws, by which she shall not be tried At the last day?“

How tied are you to man’s laws?  How tied are you to expressions of violence?  Oft we forget the power of the Seven Deadly Sins, Pride highest among them as the first and original sin.  Lust, Greed/Avarice, Envy, Anger/Wrath, Sloth and Gluttony join in and are, in all ways, forms of violence [against others, self...].  

We must be wary of obeying man’s laws over God’s models.  We must “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s” but we must also be willing, like the Christian souls of old, to die for the cause without compromising our soul.  Violence is never permitted, it is never condoned.  

I await thoughts and sharings from educated and thoughtful spirits out there.  

[losttoy]

For all the assholes out there saying that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." Less than 1% gun use is self defense.