A moral question

[SecularMotion]

For too long the debate over gun control in this country has been seen as an entirely political one, when it’s actually a moral question.

At a rally this past weekend in Greenwich celebrating the 400-mile bicycle ride of Team 26 from Newtown to Washington, D.C., by people touched by mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School and Virginia Tech, there was support from people of all political affiliations. But it was the Rev. Maxwell Grant, senior minister of Second Congregational Church, who cut to the heart of it, quoting the Bible when he said, “Choose on this day whom you will serve but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord.” He followed it up by asking, Who would we serve as a nation?

“Will we serve the merchants of death who make profit in destruction? Will we serve those who say 30-round clips and assault weapons are vital to hunting? Will we serve those who argue that it’s fair and right that driving a car or getting on a plane or registering a dog should be harder than purchasing a handgun?”

That shreds all the politics around the issue and focuses instead on the moral question of what kind of nation we will allow ourselves to be. One that fights for common-sense reform or one that sinks in violence?

http://www.greenwich-post.com/23963/a-moral-question/

[billh58]

1. The me, me, me

Second Amendment absolutist "cold-dead-hands" crowd believe that Zimmerman was morally justified in stalking and killing Trayvon Martin, because he was legally carrying a gun, and the SYG law gave him the power to be a bully. Their claims that CCW holders are more "law-abiding" than non-CCW holders do not address morally-corrupt, but unreported, wife beaters, bullies, drunks, bigots, and other anti-social misfits who are allowed to carry lethal weapons in public.

Appealing to the right-wing gun lobby about moral issues connected with the gun violence epidemic in this nation is an exercise in futility, as evidenced by their lack of compassion or understanding connected with most other Liberal social improvement efforts.