On today’s “Pray In Jesus Name” program, Colordao Republican state legislator Gordon Klingenschmitt was discussing a lawsuit that has been filed against Cinemark over the mass shooting that occurred at its theater in Aurora, Colorado, in 2012 when he declared that even the Bible speaks about the dangers of establishing gun-free zones.
The solution to preventing mass shootings, Klingenschmitt said, is to let law-abiding citizens carry concealed weapons everywhere so that “nobody is a sitting duck” … as even the Bible recognizes.
“Did you know in the Bible there were gun-free zones,” Klingenschmitt asked, before citing 1 Samuel 13:19:
Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.”
“By removing all of the blacksmiths, the Hebrews were defenseless, they were sitting ducks without swords and spears and therefore they were ruled and dominated by their evil oppressors,” he said. “Are we going to let that happen here in America? That is to be determined, but I think there ought to be a law”:
