Oklahoma church cancels gun giveaway at youth event

The latest from the “Are you sure this isn’t from Lark News?” department: An Oklahoma church cancels the giveaway of a semiautomatic assault rifle at one of their youth events. From the church’s youth pastor:

I don’t want people thinking My goodness, we’re putting a weapon in the hand of somebody that doesn’t respect it who are then going to go out and kill… That’s not at all what we’re trying to do.

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