This post is part of a series on Galvanizing the Civic Sector to Reduce Gun Violence. The series focuses on what several sectors – including parents, teens, schools, hospitals, the faith community, and city leaders – can do, independent of state and federal legislative advocacy, to reduce violence and the high number of gun-related deaths […]
The Faith Community’s Unique Role in Preventing Gun Violence
For the first time in years our nation is engaged in a public discussion about the easy availability of guns, guns that kill 86 Americans every day, eight of them children. The discussion persists. It won’t go away, and it shouldn’t. The faith community, in the thick of this discussion, brings to it a unique, […]