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I will not be silenced, we have no right to kill the innocents
The Seventh Commandment says, “You shall not murder!”
I am saying we have no right to these instruments of murder,
for assault-style weapons are manufactured solely for killing.
When we go deer hunting, do we take an assault weapon?
I think not! We take the appropriate gun made for hunting.

Why do we take pride in owning a weapon used in mayhem?
Do we get a perverse pleasure out of its power, possibly?
Is it, perhaps, a manly thing? I doubt many women own one.
Today, somewhere in the U.S.A., a child will shoot a friend,
probably unintentionally, but the friend will be lost forever,
and, the child will be devastated by what he/she has done.

[According to Vox, Australia confiscated 650,000 guns.
As a result, murder and suicide rates “plummeted.”]

From what I can tell, the rest of the world is stunned by our
indifference to gun control. They simply do not understand.
I, too, am flabbergasted that we are unwilling to stand up,
for our children’s sake, while school shootings proliferate.
It grieves me that I gave most of my life to the ministry, and
most lobbying for these guns call themselves Christians!

I believe Jesus is weeping today. 

written May 26, 2022

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