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Faithful Dissent: A Gun Owner Asks Texas to Rethink Its Gun Culture, with Scott Spreier

Scott Spreier hunts birds, owns shotguns, and thinks Texas should license and register an AR-15 the way it does a pickup truck. In this conversation, he and George Mason, who have been neighbors and fellow church members for years, talk about growing up in Kansas when guns were tools, how gun culture in Texas has become tied to identity and fear, and which reforms he supports, including registration, extreme risk protection orders, and age limits.

They discuss why lawmakers keep resisting measures he says most Texans want, and how Scott’s volunteer work with young men leaving prison taught him to get to know people before labeling them. Scott also explains why his faith and his stage of life led him to turn outward in retirement.

Scott Spreier is a retired Dallas business consultant and writer who grew up in western Kansas. A Vietnam-era veteran, avid bird hunter, and former NRA-accredited shotgun instructor, he is a member of Texas Gun Owners for Safety, a chapter of Giffords Gun Owners for Safety, and he volunteers with a prison entrepreneurship program.

advocacy, Faith, America, gun violenceGood God ProjectNovember 5, 2026Dissent, Human Rights

Dr. Brian Williams: reflections as the trauma surgeon of a mass shooting

Brian Williams was a surgeon on call at Parkland Hospital on July 7, 2016 and operated on the victims of the Dallas police shooting that launched the Back the Blue campaign. Hear how that night and its trauma, combined with the tragedies of the previous two days--the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile--positioned him to be a spokesperson and activist for racial justice.