Last June 2022, the Senate passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. The SCA was the largest GVP bill passed in nearly 30 years. Its passage must be celebrated. Lives will be saved. What is the substance? ENHANCED BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR BUYERS UNDER 21.…

Are we as Christians and Americans HAPPY with the level of gun violence? The devotion from Luther Seminary this morning quoted Psalm 33:12-22. Verse 12 reads: “Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people God has chosen as God’s heritage.”…

I would argue NO! The United States has nearly 400 million guns in the hands and homes of our people. The consequence of this avalanche of weapons is a hemorrhage of gun violence. DATA: (From various sources: Protect Minnesota, Brady, Giffords, The Trace,…

“For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery . . . . the only thing that counts is faith working through love.” Galatians 5:1, 6b Yesterday, A female new commentator listed…

Such were the words of Fred Guttenburg whose daughter was shot and killed at Parkland. He was responding to President Biden’s announcing Executive Action to regulate Ghost Guns. Ghost Guns (GG) are a growing menace to safety. GG can be purchased online with…

What is a Biblical ethic for gun violence prevention (GVP)? We may begin in Genesis 1-2 with the two creation accounts. God created the earth and all life, and it was “good”. “Good” is the Will of God, meaning the Garden of Eden…

LITTLE DID WE KNOW, that as the three of us were talking about how our Catholic and Lutheran faiths energize our commitment to gun violence prevention, as we were drinking coffee and enjoying delicious carrot muffins, as we were talking about he importance…

I was enraged at the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal on all counts. Then, I pled kyrie eleison. There were questions about the fairness of the trial, decisions of the judge and the make-up of the jury. Some say the prosecution’s strategy was misdirected. The…

Yesterday, I attended an inter-faith gathering of Jews, Muslims, Roman Catholics, Methodists and Lutherans, whose purpose was to fine-tune a gun safety/gun violence prevention (GS/GVP) model for statewide inter-faith use. It was sponsored by Protect Minnesota and its Inter-Faith Alliance for Gun Safety…

Primal justifications for gun purchase and use are appeals to “freedom and rights” buttressed by reference to the Second Amendment. Stirred into the mix is the right of self-defense as we have heard in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. Yet, the primary clarion shout…