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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCardinal Blase Cupich on the Second Amendment
https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2022/05/25/cardinal-cupich-uvalde-shooting-gun-control-243057
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Cardinal Blase Cupich on the Second Amendment (Original Post)
Raven123
May 2022
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sop
(17,905 posts)1. Good article.
"The Second Amendment did not come down from Sinai. The right to bear arms will never be more important than human life. Our children have rights, too. And our elected officials have a moral duty to protect them."
enough
(13,711 posts)2. Final words from the statement:
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As I reflect on this latest American massacre, I keep returning to the questions: Who are we as a nation if we do not act to protect our children? What do we love more: our instruments of death or our future?
The Second Amendment did not come down from Sinai. The right to bear arms will never be more important than human life. Our children have rights, too. And our elected officials have a moral duty to protect them.
crickets
(26,168 posts)6. That cuts right to the heart of the matter. nt
Baitball Blogger
(51,895 posts)3. kick
Tetrachloride
(9,488 posts)4. Gun control in the Sinai means the army has the guns and
many others should not .
Irish_Dem
(80,402 posts)5. We clearly love our guns much more than our children.
That is the kind of country we are.
