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I put up a prayer request for my friend Travis, and people responded. Thanks for the support.

Ordinarily, when a person goes into the hospital, his family will keep people informed so they can provide support. This situation is different. The communication is very bad. The only reason I found out about Travis’s setback was that a friend who is bending over backward to help him got a nurse to talk to her today. I’m sure that was a HIPAA violation, but it was helpful.

I texted Travis’s brother, and he sent me a response.

1. Travis went into cardiac arrest last night.

2. He has a lung infection which was affecting the blood supply to his brain.

3. He had an operation to help with the oxygen problem, and it was successful.

4. He is back in stable condition, down from critical.

5. They are testing him for COVID-19, and the tests have been negative.

It appears that the nurse who said he was in critical condition was providing outdated information, or maybe his condition was upgraded after she provided it.

In other news, someone did multiple drive-by shootings at the homes of some of the stars of Duck Dynasty, which has been out of production for three years. A man named Daniel King shot a bunch of .380 rounds from a pickup truck. He claims he was checking the gun’s safety to see if it was on. Not very credible, given the multiple rounds and the fact that shots were fired at two properties. And this is not how you check to see if a safety is engaged.

King had a minor in the truck with him, and he was drinking vodka. It appears that he did not plan his attack or escape meticulously.

He is very lucky to be breathing, as is his unwilling companion. He was using a weak pistol, and he attacked people who have AR-15’s. Phil Robertson says he considered grabbing an AR and confronting the threat, and Jase says that within 10 seconds of the attack, he had a rifle in one hand and a shotgun in the other.

A bullet entered a window in one house. Eight people were in the houses. The attack was not a trivial or harmless thing.

I find this interesting because I think it was a deliberate act directed at the Robertsons because of their image. You don’t just wander around drunk and end up shooting a pistol accidentally, many times, in a gated community, at homes that happen to belong to famous conservative Christians who are members of the same family.

The Robertsons now have restraining orders in place, in case this man is released. His got bail, and it was surprisingly low. Maybe he’ll get out.

I keep telling people leftists and other enemies of Christianity are full of rage and perfectly willing to commit atrocities against us. I say lack of will is not what restrains them. They’re just afraid of being arrested and having their lives disrupted. They are not kidding when they talk about killing us, raping the women, molesting the kids, and mistreating us in other ways. It’s not just talk.

Americans have a hard time making their guts absorb the fact that their neighbors are capable of murdering them, taking what they have, and committing other vile acts that have no place in a civilized nation. When you’re not a vicious person, and you’re used to living in an orderly country, your instincts tell you your compatriots will never jump your fence and drag you out into your yard. But many, many of them would do it in a split second if they expected to get away with it.

Don’t forget what Lot’s neighbors tried to do to him and the angels. Don’t forget that Jesus’ neighbors in Nazareth tried to throw him off a cliff, after a few minutes of provocation. The apostles were beaten by civilized religious Jews repeatedly, and they got similar treatment from civilized Romans and Greeks.

A lot of people think the ancient world was savage and full of anarchy, but that’s a misperception. The Greeks and Romans had very orderly nations for the most part. Unsanctioned physical attacks were just as out of the ordinary there as they would be here. The Romans who beat Paul were terrified when they learned he was a citizen.

I suspect that God is going to use Travis’s misfortune to cut his ties to Miami and put him in a safer place. He might end up here for a while. As America becomes more polarized, God’s people are leaving cities. Cities will not be transformed. They will get worse. Perhaps there are exceptions, but this is the general rule. Christians who think God put them in cities to save them are imagining things.

I don’t know what kind of person Daniel King is or where he lives. Maybe he lives in the country. Maybe he loves Jesus, the Robertsons, and Donald Trump. But generally, cities hold much higher concentrations of people who are dangerous to God’s children.

The homes that were affected by the drive-by are in a suburb. The Robertson rural image is a TV myth. Not all of them live in the woods.

Trump won’t be president forever, and things won’t go our way politically. When Trump leaves office, leftists will be like rabid monkeys that just broke out of containment. They will blame us for Trump and everything else they can think of.

We’re actually seeing persecution ramp up, and very few people even notice.