By November 11, 2024, an estimated 100,000 people walking around alive and well in America today will be shot by a gun and 40,000 of us will end up being murdered by a gun. There will also be 24,000 less Americans a year from now due to gun suicides, and aren’t we the greatest country ever? After Sandy Hook, the fact that we did absolutely nothing as a country to prevent another elementary school shooting proved more than anything else that we just might be a failing nation, unwilling and unable to do what it takes to be a moral people and protect our children from ritual slaughter. Nearly 1,500 children and teens have been killed by gunfire so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive and to Christian Conservatives I would ask: “What would Jesus do?”

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