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Odessa, Texas mass shooting responses tie together evangelical Christians and guns


When guns evoke such positive (even sacred) feelings of security and national belonging, is it any wonder that so many evangelicals refuse to consider gun control?

 

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More surprising to some, perhaps, is the prominence of religious rhetoric and reasoning in leaders’ responses to gun violence. Scholars who’ve studied these issues for the past few years, however, now recognize that we can’t understand our national divisions over guns without recognizing the powerful role religion plays in Americans’ lives.

 

And while a recent poll shows Republicans’ approval of Trump’s handling of gun policy being among his lowest in the GOP, no religious group has been more steadfast in their support for Trump and taken a more central role in debates over gun violence than evangelical Protestants. This is no coincidence, because when it comes to guns in America, evangelicals stand apart from all other Americans in what they believe causes gun violence, what they think we need to do to stop it and especially how guns make them feel.

 

 

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14 minutes ago, GSG said:

Odessa, Texas mass shooting responses tie together evangelical Christians and guns


When guns evoke such positive (even sacred) feelings of security and national belonging, is it any wonder that so many evangelicals refuse to consider gun control?

 

 

 

The NRA has done a masterful job of understanding this.  Their marketing towards Christians and making a significant enough number of them believe guns and Christianity are tied together.....is sick.

 

This is actually a book for sale on Amazon.

 

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The National Rifle Association (NRA) has filed a lawsuit against the city of San Francisco less than a week after the city’s lawmakers unanimously passed a resolution declaring it a domestic terrorist organization.

 

In a lawsuit filed Monday, the NRA alleges San Francisco violated the organization’s First Amendment rights. “The resolution’s ‘terrorist’ designation is a frivolous insult — but San Francisco’s actions pose a non-frivolous constitutional threat,” the lawsuit reads. “The NRA cannot stand by and allow that to happen.”

 

Lawmakers in San Francisco passed the resolution on Sept. 3 in the wake of mass shootings in Gilroy, Calif., El Paso, Texas, Dayton, Ohio, and Odessa, Texas, that left a combined 41 people dead. It was originally introduced on July 30 by Supervisor Catherine Stefani, who spoke after the resolution was passed unanimously.

 

 

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