Fr. Kevin Drew: The Weaponization of Transgenderism and the Response of the Cross

“A gun is a tool, Marion, no better or no worse than any other tool; an axe, a shovel, or anything.”

A newly hired ranch-hand said that to a concerned mother after she objected to the man giving her young son some shooting lessons.  It’s from the 1953 movie Shane, where a silent and kindhearted man arrives seemingly out of nowhere and helps some poor farmers in their desperate fight against a greedy, land-hungry rancher.

The intriguing thing about the hired hand is that though he is thoughtful and kind, there is an air of mystery and danger about him. After he tells the mother a gun is just a tool, he delivers one of the greatest lines in the movie: “A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it.”

The mother gets the last word in by saying, “We’d all be better off if there weren’t any guns in our valley.”  That sounded nice, but was not based on reality, was it?  Without guns that woman wouldn’t have a home and a farm.  Without guns she most likely would have been tomahawked or shot through with arrows, perhaps mutilated, or sold into slavery.  The guns, a product of an advanced culture, brought Western Civilization (Christian Civilization) to the continent and transformed what was a savage society. …

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