{"id":82353,"date":"2017-11-14T20:15:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T01:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=82353"},"modified":"2017-11-14T20:15:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T11:50:17","slug":"catholic-bishop-gun-control-social-justice-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/catholic-bishop-gun-control-social-justice-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Bishop: Gun Control is a &#8216;Social Justice Issue&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_82354\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Bishop.gif\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"catholic-bishop-gun-control-social-justice-issue\" title=\"Catholic Bishop: Gun Control is a 'Social Justice Issue'\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82354\" title=\"Catholic Bishop: Gun Control is a 'Social Justice Issue'\" class=\"wp-image-82354 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Bishop-400x267.gif\" alt=\"Catholic Bishop: Gun Control is a 'Social Justice Issue'\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Bishop-400x267.gif 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Bishop-150x100.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-82354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego. (<em>Photo: CNS\/Paul Haring<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Reactions in the wake of the mass murder in Sutherland Springs, TX, have followed all-too-predictable lines as Americans attempt to blame inanimate \u201cmachines\u201d for human evil. Two religious thinkers have joined the fray, arguing that Christians have a moral obligation to support gun control.<\/p>\n<p>The first comes from the Roman Catholic Church, where San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy called gun control a \u201csocial justice issue\u201d because \u201cthe problem of guns in our culture leads to so many deaths by guns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the problems is the organized opposition to gun control, taking the position that any limitation against guns is a limitation on the core rights of individuals,\u201d he said. \u201cThe notion that to restrict automatic and semi-automatic weapons is a restriction on personal rights that should be given to society, to me, seems unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bishop claimed that \u201cthe majority of gun owners\u201d support \u201cspecific pieces of legislation\u201d that would bring \u201csensible, targeted, and effective gun control,\u201d but he failed to name the legislation he had in mind.<\/p>\n<p>He may be referring to an \u201cassault weapons ban,\u201d which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/10\/02\/politics\/bipartisan-gun-control-policies-majorities\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"catholic-bishop-gun-control-social-justice-issue\" title=\"Catholic Bishop: Gun Control is a 'Social Justice Issue'\">CNN<\/a> and like-minded outlets claim enjoys \u201cmajority support from both parties.\u201d Other, less-biased sources, however, have reached much different conclusions. A 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/196658\/support-assault-weapons-ban-record-low.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"catholic-bishop-gun-control-social-justice-issue\" title=\"Catholic Bishop: Gun Control is a 'Social Justice Issue'\">Gallup<\/a> poll found that only 36 percent of Americans favor a ban on \u201cassault rifles,\u201d the lowest number ever recorded.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/obama-calls-gun-control-less-6-hours-texas-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"catholic-bishop-gun-control-social-justice-issue\" title=\"Catholic Bishop: Gun Control is a 'Social Justice Issue'\">Obama Calls for Gun Control Less than 6 Hours after Texas Shooting<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>McElroy may also be referring to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/wisconsin\/statements\/2017\/oct\/03\/chris-abele\/do-90-americans-support-background-checks-all-gun-\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"catholic-bishop-gun-control-social-justice-issue\" title=\"Catholic Bishop: Gun Control is a 'Social Justice Issue'\">variety of surveys<\/a> that have indicated broad support for universal background checks, but these surveys do not differentiate between gun owners and non-gun owners. It also isn\u2019t clear how effectively universal background checks would stop mass murders, considering the Texas shooter was able to acquire a firearm even though he should have been a prohibited person.<\/p>\n<p>The second Christian to call for gun control published an op-ed in (of all places) the <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/11\/opinion\/sunday\/christians-support-gun-control.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"catholic-bishop-gun-control-social-justice-issue\" title=\"Catholic Bishop: Gun Control is a 'Social Justice Issue'\">New York Times<\/a>. A journalist named Richard Parker followed McElroy\u2019s lead by blaming the \u201cmachine\u201d for mass murders rather than the murderer.<\/p>\n<p>Parker refers to AR-15s as \u201cmachines\u201d no less than five times throughout the course of the article, arguing that we must \u201cremove the killing machines that have put tens of thousands of Americans in their graves or hospital beds in this century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says we must \u201cconfront these machines and the profiteering behind them\u201d by stopping the \u201cthe proliferation of machines solely designed to kill large numbers of people quickly, machines that bear no more semblance to a rifle than a nuclear weapon does to a firework.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reading Parker\u2019s article without knowledge of the incident, one might assume that firearms, rather than the shooter, are the real evil at play. In the end, Parker blames nearly everything for the shooting except the shooter himself, concluding that \u201cGod will never forgive us\u201d if we let \u201cthe machines of war and profit win over faith.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy called gun control a \u201csocial justice issue\u201d because \u201cthe problem of guns in our culture leads to so many deaths by 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