Comments on: Jesuit Says Gun Control Is a Religious Issue http://www.jesuit.org/blog/index.php/2012/07/jesuit-says-gun-control-is-a-religious-issue/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Joe Tetlow, S.J. http://www.jesuit.org/blog/index.php/2012/07/jesuit-says-gun-control-is-a-religious-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-15485 Joe Tetlow, S.J. Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:29:16 +0000 http://www.jesuit.org/blog/?p=6710#comment-15485 Fr Martin's observation that reasonable gun control has to form part of a consistent ethic of life is so clearly true that you wonder why Christians have not seen it before. Some of us have been too busy focused on one or other life issue. How many more murders will it take to make us realize that guns do, indeed, kill people? Fr Martin’s observation that reasonable gun control has to form part of a consistent ethic of life is so clearly true that you wonder why Christians have not seen it before. Some of us have been too busy focused on one or other life issue. How many more murders will it take to make us realize that guns do, indeed, kill people?

]]> By: Bob Costello, SJ http://www.jesuit.org/blog/index.php/2012/07/jesuit-says-gun-control-is-a-religious-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-15370 Bob Costello, SJ Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:40:25 +0000 http://www.jesuit.org/blog/?p=6710#comment-15370 Well, Jim, "you have gone and done it now." I applaud your candor in saying gun control must be debated also as a religious issue. I suspect the gun lobby will fire right back at you. It never occured to me that gun control is a pro-life issue, one with its own distinctive bite for Christians. I will have to think more about that. Probably before you were born there was on the cover page of Psychology Today this comment: The finger doesn't pull the trigger, the trigger pulls the finger. I don't know if current research backs that up, but it is a stimulating assertion. And, in many cases, it is right on. Blessings on your work. Well, Jim, “you have gone and done it now.” I applaud your candor in saying gun control must be debated also as a religious issue. I suspect the gun lobby will fire right back at you.

It never occured to me that gun control is a pro-life issue, one with its own distinctive bite for Christians. I will have to think more about that.

Probably before you were born there was on the cover page of Psychology Today this comment: The finger doesn’t pull the trigger, the trigger pulls the finger. I don’t know if current research backs that up, but it is a stimulating assertion. And, in many cases, it is right on.

Blessings on your work.

]]> By: Michael Cooper, S.J. http://www.jesuit.org/blog/index.php/2012/07/jesuit-says-gun-control-is-a-religious-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-15360 Michael Cooper, S.J. Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:22:09 +0000 http://www.jesuit.org/blog/?p=6710#comment-15360 Jim Martin zeroed in on a very Ignatian response to the violence and murder in Aurora, Co. I am glad he took some heat. Maybe the storm he stirred up will get other Christians and pro-lifers thinking. Guns and the violence are definitely a pro-life issue. Jim Martin zeroed in on a very Ignatian response to the violence and murder in Aurora, Co. I am glad he took some heat. Maybe the storm he stirred up will get other Christians and pro-lifers thinking. Guns and the violence are definitely a pro-life issue.

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