{"id":501,"date":"2014-08-07T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/08\/its-time-for-the-church-to-start-taking-gun-violence-seriously.html"},"modified":"2014-08-07T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:00:00","slug":"its-time-for-the-church-to-start-taking-gun-violence-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/08\/its-time-for-the-church-to-start-taking-gun-violence-seriously.html","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time for the Church to Start Taking Gun Violence Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Between Thursday evening and Sunday on July 4 weekend, 82 people were shot<\/a> in the city of Chicago. Of those, 14 died. Those numbers\u2014from one American city over the course of a single weekend\u2014represent more gun violence than some developed countries experience in an entire year.<\/span><\/p>\n

A new report<\/a> from the CDC showed that guns killed 32,351 people in America in 2011 alone. That\u2019s 88 deaths every single day.
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Every 16 minutes for an entire year, someone was killed by a gun.<\/span><\/div>\n

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But this isn\u2019t just about numbers.<\/span><\/div>\n

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This isn\u2019t just about legislation.<\/span><\/div>\n

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This isn\u2019t just about your opinion on gun ownership.<\/span><\/div>\n

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This is about brokenness.<\/span><\/div>\n


When a country with the resources, wealth, power and influence of the United States becomes increasingly notorious for its gun violence, something is badly broken. If the Church is called to be the Body of Christ, then it\u2019s our job to recognize what\u2019s broken and seek restoration.<\/span><\/p>\n

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