On Wednesday this week Cumbria suffered the latest of the UKs gun sprees as one man drove round the county apparantly shooting people at random.
How many more such tragedies must occur before something is done about the large number of guns in our communities?
Some questions,
1. Why does anyone other than a farmer, game-keeper or vet need to own a gun?
2. Why do we continue to allow guns to be used for recreation or sport?
3. Have we really lost all sense of the common good? Must all things submit to the great god of personal freedom?
Apart from my categories in 1 above I think I would ban all gun ownership. That way, anyone else with a gun is a criminal and intent on criminal activity. But I doubt that any Government of the UK would have the courage or political will to enact such a law.
So then, all we have left is to pray for the victims of this horrible deed. To pray for communities torn apart by another gun crime. To pray that God would so work in our nation as to remove the need for guns and weapons and end all violence.
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