United Methodist Church works to end gun violence | The United Methodist Church

United Methodist Church works to end gun violence | The United Methodist Church: By Kathy L. Gilbert April 7, 2016 | UMNS
 Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. 

              (EVERYTHING AFTER THIS POINT IS BULLSHIT!)

 The National Rifle Association has that as its slogan and taken literally, it is true. But according to statistics from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, every day in America, 297 people are shot — 89 die and 55 of those were suicides. “Whether it happens in the towns of northeastern Nigeria, a suburb in the United States, the streets of Australia, or an office in France, gun violence has become an all-too-often frightening phenomenon,” states a revised resolution going to the 2016 United Methodist General Conference. “Our Call to End Gun Violence” cites Micah’s “prophetic dream” of turning weapons into plows. (Micah 4:1-4) “We need the reality of Micah’s vision more than ever,” states the proposal coming from the United Methodist Board of Church and Society, the denomination’s social action agency.