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Between Thursday evening and Sunday on July 4 weekend, 82 people were shot in the city of Chicago. Of those, 14 died. Those numbers—from one American city over the course of a single weekend—represent more gun violence than some developed countries experience in an entire year.
A new report from the CDC showed that guns killed 32,351 people in America in 2011 alone. That’s 88 deaths every single day.
Every 16 minutes for an entire year, someone was killed by a gun.
But this isn’t just about numbers.
This isn’t just about legislation.
This isn’t just about your opinion on gun ownership.
This is about brokenness.
When a country with the resources, wealth, power and influence of the United States becomes increasingly notorious for its gun violence, something is badly broken. If the Church is called to be the Body of Christ, then it’s our job to recognize what’s broken and seek restoration.
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