Promoting Peace amidst Gun Violence

There is too much gun violence in our country.

That shouldn't be debatable but it is for some in our country.

But no matter how you slice it, tens of thousands of lives are cut short every year by guns. There are murders, there are murder-suicides, there are suicides and the accidents too. Its too many.

We need to consider the costs to our society and our lives.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2013/10/gun_violence_epidemiology_garen_wintemute_on_mental_illness_and_background.html

As a father of five, I think about guns and kids:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/us/children-and-guns-the-hidden-toll.html

We need to pray and to act in peace:

Almighty God, who created us in your image: Grant us grace fearlessly to contend against evil and to make no peace with oppression; and, that we may reverently use our freedom, help us to employ it in the maintenance of justice in our communities and among the nations, to the glory of your holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

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