Fun With Guns: Details, I Want Details! Edition
Hell, it’s Nebraska. It’s lonely in Nebraska.
Okay, so it took me a while to figure out whether they were arguing over who owned this particular Bible or cranky with each other over something written in this Bible. And, the story doesn’t answer that definitively. However, I think they were arguing over holy scripture.
A Lincoln man remained in jail Monday after police say he shot his neighbor twice following an argument over the Bible Friday night.
Jimmy Livingston, 60, shot 30-year-old Andrew Pickering in the shoulder and hip in the incident at an apartment building at 741 Sumner Street, according to an affidavit for Livingston’s arrest.
So, best we can ascertain, Jimmy was riled up as hell and pulled a handgun on Andrew. Andrew, who appears to have a few IQ points on Jimmy, took that as a indication that he should go home. So, he did.
Jimmy stood outside Andrew’s door and fired his 9mm Smith and Wesson into Andrew’s apartment. Andrew was shot in the hip and the shoulder and taken to the hospital with non life threatening holes in his body.
The story gives no indication over the nature of the argument or where the Bible is now. Which is a damn shame. Because I want to know.
Thanks to Ron for the heads up.
Seriously? I guess this just goes to prove the truth behind that old adage “when an ass looks into the Bible its unlikely that an apostle will look out.”
1@maggie
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2Great galloping idiots! I dare Jimmy to find in the Bible where it says “And if your neighbor annoys you by something he says about Scripture, chase him down and shoot him through his door twice.” Double-dare him.
3This lends new riffs on that old term: “bible-thumping”, to wit:
bible-blasting,
bible-lockandloading,
bible-racking,
bible-standyourgrounding,
bible-backsliding or bible-blowback (if you know how most semi-auto pistols work),
bible-‘protectedbyS&W’,
bible-equalizing…
OMFG, let me outta here, now we have apartment building Xtian 9mm Crusaders settling theological differences with hollowpoints.
‘Head of a pin’ angel debates my ass, this is ballistic beatdown.
10 to 1 that ol’ Jimmy walks, he’ll almost certainly have a ‘jury of his peers’ up there in corn and hog country.
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Unfortunately, no let me begin again, fortunately, I have no way of factually answering JJ’s question about the nature of the Bible argument which ended in shots fired.
But I’ll hazard a guess, from behind something far more bulletproof than Andrew Pickering’s apartment door, the internet. I think the two of them were discussing “Who’s Your Favorite Disciple.” The conversation quickly devolved into “Who’s The Best Disciple.” When Jimmy Livingston suggested it might be his namesake, James, Andrew objected and said it had to be Matthew, as his was the first Book of the New Testament.
And… downhill it goes…
5Sandridge, that about covers the topic!
Unless we erase the cross-walks where these fine specimens church and school. They’re obviously too st00pid to cross the street without marking the pavement. Without the markings maybe only the ‘smarter’ among them will survive.
6“And on the seventh Day God created bullets.”
7Hey, that’s the crazy side of my state. In my part (the Panhandle), folks just shoot at geese or elk (or occasionally lose their guns while hunting).
8Like the rest of you, I have no clue what the biblical disagreement was about. However, unlike most of you, I hazard a guess, to wit, Jimmy says the Bible is the absolute law given us by God, and Andrew passed half a Dr Pepper through his nose he was laughing so hard.
Naturally, a spirited defense of the almighty was necessary, amen.
9Um. Y’all. Skip reading the article that Juanita Jean linked and go straight to the comments for the whole story. It’s worth it.
10Well, most good Christians don’t talk about it much. But one of the most important topics of debate amongst Biblical scholars is the second Commandment. Idols, false gods, militias and infringed regulated freedoms are hard for good ole boys to wrap their noggins around. But after a few tequila shots, Livingston thought Pickering was advocating for arming bears and came to the conclusion that Andy was a pinko who wanted to repeal the book of Exodus. It was at that point that Mr. Livingston felt guided by the Holy Spirit to lob a coupla rounds into Andy’s apartment. At press time, thoughts and prayers were being thought and prayed from gun shows all over the country.
11What Michelle S said. The comments are golden.
12Michelle S. and Origuy:
13Believe it or not, I started #11, was interrupted, and didn’t see your comments or the other ones until after. Mine was meant to be ironical. I don’t think theirs were. But they were spectacularly glorious. Thanks.
I bet it was the verse about loving your neighbor as yourself.
14As a proudly ingrained northerner, I am impressed that there were two people in the same neighborhood that could READ the bible. Comprehend, now, that’s something else.
15Yo! Slipstream! These folks don’t read the Bible. They imagine what alt-right talking points are in it.
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