Tag: gun control

The number of dead resulting from gun violence of all kinds is staggering. There were 692 mass shootings in 2021, the most since 2014, when the Gun Violence Archive began keeping records.

I sit here today wondering what words I can possibly offer, yet again, to the tragedy of children, killed by another youth using guns, at an elementary school.

We re-awaken from this regular nightmare of guns and shootings and mass death, and as yet, we have not learned anything.

There were four mass shootings in March, a total of 27 dead. The usual thoughts and prayers followed. Once again, various gun control bills have been suggested or even introduced at state and federal levels. None will pass or survive eventual court challenges or survive the refusal of some local police to enforce the laws that do pass.

I think the Bible speaks ‘clearly’ on gun control, saying that it’s completely unneeded and, at the same time, unfortunately necessary.

The rhetoric surrounding guns in our country right now is impressively divisive. There is such a severe imaginary line between sides of the debate – either you support gun ownership or you don’t – that good, kind Christians sometimes automatically translate “demonstration against violence” to “demands to take away everyone’s right to own guns,” in their minds.

Sandy Hook taught me that our country’s love affair with guns and money is too powerful a sin to be broken no matter the amount of blood spilled.