By a cliff-hanger vote—217 to 213—the United States House of Representatives on July 29 passed a ban on private ownership of assault weapons. The legislation would make it illegal to sell, manufacture, transfer, possess, or import assault weapons in the United States. God in heaven, why does any private citizen want or need such weapons…
Category: Gun control
Human sacrifice and gun violence
Dome of the Rock in Old Jerusalem enshrines faith stories, including the almost-sacrifice of Isaac. By Jewish and Muslim tradition, the bedrock protruding inside this seventh-century structure is the top of Mount Moriah, to which Abraham took his son at God’s command. The boy carried firewood, Abraham carried fire and knife. “The fire and the…
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