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On Guns & the Protection of Human Life
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1. Pray
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Prayer: Let the Shooting End
God, our hearts are broken with pain at the senseless deaths caused by gun violence. Families mourn, children live in fear, and some in our nation respond by arming themselves with more guns with greater capacity to end life. Our disconnection and alienation has caused some to turn to guns for protection and safety. We ask that you touch our hearts with your love, heal our brokenness, and turn us away from violence toward peace. Help us to transform our own hearts and to seek peaceful ways of resolving our differences. Let our hands reach out and connect with those who feel alone, those who live in fear, and those suffering from mental illness. Let our voices be raised asking our legislators to enact gun laws to protect all in our society, especially those most vulnerable. Let our pens write messages demanding change while also scripting words of hope and transformation. We ask this in the name of the God who desires that we live together in peace. Amen.
~From the Sisters of Mercy
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2. Be Informed
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From The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
"As bishops, we support measures that control the sale and use of firearms and make them safer — especially efforts that prevent their unsupervised use by children or anyone other than the owner — and we reiterate our call for sensible regulation of handguns and believe that in the long run and with few exceptions — i.e. police officers, military use — handguns should eventually be eliminated from our society."
The USCCB offers a number of resources on issues related to Gun Violence including the following that we offer for your consideration:
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Backgrounder on Gun Violence (a policy & advocacy resource)
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A Mercy and Peacebuilding Approach to Gun Violence (from the Department of Justice, Peace & Human Development's Office of Domestic Social Development)
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Responses to the Plague of Gun Violence (a statement)
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3. Be an Advocate For Human Life
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Tools of Change:Your Voice, Your Keyboard, Your Pen
After learning more about this issue that many Texans have strong opinions on, we hope that you'll engage in advocacy to promote common sense gun regulations! We've assembled resources to make advocacy easy, visit ~
Advocate Now
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4. Support Organizations Engaged with this Issue
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Bishops United Against Gun Violence - a network of nearly 100 Episcopal Church bishops, urges our cities, states and nation to adopt policies and pass legislation that will reduce the number of people in the United States killed and wounded by gunfire.
Gun Violence - From the Social Justice Resource Center whose mission is to link faith to action by providing information and resources on the social issues of our time.
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5. Take Care of Yourself & Stay Positive
