Ep. 12—Las Vegas Shooting, A Mencken Chrestomathy, & The Reprobate
Plodcast
Canon Press
4.9 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Pastor Wilson discusses the Las Vegas Shooting, gun control arguments, and Stephen Paddock. He plugs H.L. Mencken’s “A Mencken Chrestomathy" and unpacks “Adikomos;” reprobate or cast away. Be sure to join him every Wednesday for the newest edition of the Plodcast. Happy plodding!
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| 0:00.0 | Yes, God, God. God don't never too. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to Plodcast, episode 12. |
| 0:20.7 | Thanks for coming. |
| 0:21.6 | Good to be with you. As I'm recording this it's just a couple of days |
| 0:27.0 | after the horrific shooting in Las Vegas where the country concert was shot up by Stephen Paddock and then he |
| 0:38.9 | ended that 10 or 15 minutes by taking by taking his own life. |
| 0:43.4 | And of course, in the aftermath of this shooting, |
| 0:50.5 | a number of people began clamoring for gun control. |
| 0:55.0 | Our gun violence problem is out of control. |
| 0:58.0 | Don't you see that we need to, don't you see that we need to have gun restrictions, gun control, etc. |
| 1:04.4 | But there are a number of things to say about this. |
| 1:08.4 | First, just at the practical legal gun control level. |
| 1:15.0 | One of the first ones would be, one of the first issues would be, |
| 1:19.0 | were the guns he used already illegal? |
| 1:22.0 | In other words, if he got these guns on the black market, then how is |
| 1:28.8 | it possible to say that we want him to have broken three laws instead of one law to do what he was going to do anyway. |
| 1:37.3 | So there are practical issues like that, but I'm more concerned, I'm more interested in the underlying reasons why |
| 1:47.0 | debates about gun control |
| 1:50.5 | break out at a high-pitched level while the ambulances are still ferrying people to the hospital. |
| 1:58.0 | Why does this sort of thing immediately result in gun control advocates loudly demanding |
| 2:09.2 | that that we all recognize that decency demands that we accept some restrictions on guns, etc. |
| 2:17.0 | And gun control opponents, oftentimes answering vitriolically and in kind and it's like this like a fight |
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