Posted on 07/01/2022 7:00:10 PM PDT by marshmallow
NEW YORK – In a June 23 letter to Congress four U.S. bishop conference chairmen commended the Senate for passing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act regarding gun violence and urged them to continue to work together to “confront a culture of violence.”
It’s the second letter U.S. bishops have sent to Congress on the topic in 20 days, after mass shootings in Buffalo, New York; Uvalde, Texas; and Tulsa, Oklahoma resulted in 36 deaths, and renewed a national conversation on U.S. gun laws and culture.
Concerning the bipartisan legislation, the letter identified several key provisions that “particularly heartened” the bishops. These include:
* Strengthening state crisis intervention programs, including extreme risk protection orders programs that prevent a person from purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm or ammunition at the petition of a family or household member or a law enforcement officer.
* Funding to help schools prevent violence including mental health initiatives.
* Strengthening background checks and closing the ‘boyfriend loophole’ to prevent people convicted of domestic abuse against a dating partner from owning a gun.
* Enhancing reviews of gun purchasers under the age of 21.
* Addressing weapons trafficking by prohibiting the purchase of a gun for someone else – known as straw purchasing – as well as firearm trafficking, and providing tools to investigate, prosecute, and educate around these offenses.
* Investing in children and family mental health services, improving access to mental health care, earlier interventions, and suicide prevention.
* Clarifying the definition of a firearm dealer to make it more difficult to evade licensing and background check requirements.
The Senate passed the bill on June 21, with a bipartisan vote of 64-34; 14 Republicans joined all 50 Democrats. The legislation is the most significant action in decades to.......
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We have open and concealed carry and no registration in AZ and we’re not walking around killing the over 7 million Arizonans living here. This Bishop just needs to sit down and STFU.
They just don't get it...gun laws have NEVER stopped someone intent on using one for ill.
The idiots never seem to blame the perps for crime; they always blame an inanimate object that is just a paperweight until someone picks it up, loads it, and uses it in a crime.
Wonder if those guys with the collars use a Bible that doesn’t have Luke 22:36 in it?
I bailed on the episcopal church five decades ago because they were way ahead of the current fad of blaming white heterosexual males for everything bad in the world.
So called “Gun Violence” is perpetrated by a few school shooter psychos and inner city gang members, so millions of law abiding gun owners must suffer?
If it wasn’t for law breaking criminals, the U.S. would have a murder rate lower than Sweden.
Bishops need to hang for their service to evil.
Tend to the flock first. Being a bishop doesn’t make you an expert in politics.
“and urged them to continue to work together to “confront a culture of violence.””
Dear Bishops,
The way one “confronts” those armed people who commit violent, evil acts against the population is by being armed oneself.
Regards,
The Supreme Court
In a June 23 letter to Congress four U.S. bishop conference chairmen commended the Senate...
Did they ever write a letter to the Supreme Court commending them for annulling the alleged constitutional protection of baby-killing?
If so, I haven’t heard about it.
They have treated lightly the injury to my people: “Peace, peace!” they say, though there is no peace.
Jeremiah 6:14
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