Episcopal Church in Michigan passes gun resolution

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2. "We work to bring God's peace to the world," Gun control will result in less peace, in the end.

Shame that they have fallen again for the "military style semi-automatic" fear bullshit like so many other hoplophobes

RESOLUTION #7

ORIGINATORS:
Heather Jones, Michael Blair, Margaret
Maycock, George Port, Karen Kienbaum,
Helen Santiz, Mark High

SUBJECT: Solutions to Gun Violence

RESOLVED:
that the 180th Convention of the Diocese of Michigan, in response to the impact on
Michigan communities of deaths from gun violence, join with other faith communities calling for the
following steps to be taken by Federal and State lawmakers:

1. Requiring and enforcing universal background checks on
all gun sales;

2. A clear ban on all future sales of military-style semi-automatic weapons, high-capacity ammunition magazines and high-impact ammunition
(i.e. ammunition more deadly than ordinarily used in hunting);

3. Making gun trafficking a Federal crime; and be it further,

RESOLVED:
that lawmakers advocate for public policy and adequate funding to provide community-based services, hospital care and research into
the causes and treatment of mental illness.

EXPLANATION/RATIONALE

The Episcopal Church supports the U.S. Constitution’s
protections of the rights of law-abiding citizens
to keep and bear arms; but, we also stand for public
policies to ban gun violence
and assault weapons.

Further we, the undersigned, believe that the victim
s of gun violence extend beyond the grave of those
lost to these tragic shootings. Access to guns with
rapid fire ability and high capacity magazines are a
common, deadly ingredient in these repeated killings. Wholesale mu
rder is made possible because,
those without proper moral guide have easy access to
these assault weapons. We as a society must
face these hard truths. We must have federal and
local legislation to ban assault weapons, limit the
capacity of gun magazines, and institute universal
background checks for all purchasers of firearms.

From the Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs

“As an Episcopalian committed in baptism to seeking justice and peace and promoting the dignity of
every human being, I commit to being part of the solution to the violence in our culture that claims the
lives of 2000 innocent children through gun crimes each year. I commit to the pursuit of laws that keep
guns out of the hands of criminals, prioritize the needs of at-risk children, provide care for those
suffering mental illness, and address the many ways in which our culture trivializes violence. I commit
to holding my lawmakers, my community, and my own household accountable”.

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