Perfectly in synch. I can pray for God to touch the heart of enemy, pray that God calms my enemy, but I don’t have to sit there and take it from my enemy. Many times God answers our prayers through us. Maybe my knockling the snot out of my enemy when he attacks me might humble him.
Show me a Church document that states pacifism is heretical and immoral and don’t refer me to CCC 2243 and 2265 because that says no such thing.
Good idea! Let’s get rid of this sex-ed junk and start requiring gun safety in the public schools. I would go one-step further and say that gun safety should be a required course for everyone who has the *right *to keep and bear arms.
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An intrinsically just act of killing is good in the means as well as the end. It is a work of love insofar as it is done for the good of the one who is subject to punishment.
That’s a good point. God not only permitted, but commanded Israel to bear arms and go to war.
I think we should also consider the possibility of arming school teachers. Perhaps, we should make it a cultural norm that citizens carry unconcealed weapons in holsters. I am not opposed to that. I also think that arms training and possession will do much to bolster self esteem in the youth and would cut down on bullying in school. BTW, I’m being serious, not fascicious. Weapons are a good thing.
Maybe you can explain why you want less control of guns to the parents and families of the many children who have been killed by guns getting into the hands of other children.
I have never been able to find any numbers on stolen guns. Apparantly it does not occur often enough to merit documentation. As far as drug deals go, that is an interesting thing to look at. If you start with the total number of gun-related deaths in the U.S. and you subtract the number that are criminals shot by police, private citizens, or each other, you find that the U.S. is among the safest civilized countries on earth to live in. When you add to that the number of crimes that are foiled by private citizens with their privately-owned firearms (something that criminals in countries like England do not have to worry about) it becomes even more obvious.
That is another thing that is so rare that there are no numbers on it. If you are not prepared to use a gun in self defense than you should not have one for that purpose.
This strikes me as another appeal to emotions; frankly, its a red herring.
You think the families see it as a red herring??
Frankly, the families of the victims are probably not the ones who should be deciding what actions to take legislatively until they are able to deliberate dispassionately. Legislation based on emotion is usually not a good thing.
Interesting idea. Do you have a source? Can you point me to some numbers on this?
There have not been that many. National Safety Council statistics show that a child is twice as likely to die from injuries sustained while playing school sports (especially football) and seven times more likely to die choking on food. Gun-related death is FAR down the list, below car accidents, falls, drowning, burns, medical malpractice, and several other causes.
I can not remember if the numbers I saw were from FBI statistics or from another source. I will find them and let you know.
Very well said.
What does this have to do with anything? I’m curious, are you female? I suppose I shouldn’t post unless I’m going to get back on topic. The topic, of course, is the Church’s teaching on gun control. It seems to me that the Church has no official teaching on gun control. The Church does not dictate every piece of concrete legislation and action that should be taken. Rather, the Church establishes general principles that serve as guidelines for evaluating the morality of legislation.