Comments on: Jesus Is the Reason for the Season http://www.priestsforlife.org/africanamerican/blog/index.php/jesus-is-the-reason-for-the-season Mon, 13 May 2013 21:28:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ralph http://www.priestsforlife.org/africanamerican/blog/index.php/jesus-is-the-reason-for-the-season/comment-page-1#comment-6581 Ralph Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:20:08 +0000 http://www.priestsforlife.org/africanamerican/blog/?p=7556#comment-6581 I’m disappointed you didn’t mention how we can work to prevent tragedies like this in the future. If all the Christians in this country who prayed for the children used their voices to demand that our broken gun laws be fixed, we could prevent much future bloodshed. Instead we have a lot of prayer, but little action.

In 2007, Japan had 2 gun-related homicide while we had over 10,000. It is not because Japan prays more than we do, but because they regulate firearms as the deadly weapons they are. Our gun laws are inexcusably broken. Dangerous felons and the mentally ill can legally buy weapons on the secondary market without any background check- a legal loophole that even 74% of NRA members think should be fixed.

We cannot prevent every tragedy, but we can easily prevent thousands of unnecessary deaths each year by working to put sensible gun laws in place and sufficiently fund our mental health programs.

Prayer is fine, but it alone will not change our broken society. We need to do the work ourselves. Christians should not ignore their duty to make our society a safer world.

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