Stop the madness.
So said organizers of the God and Guns 2016 conference. They are tired, they say, of wringing their hands, of changing their Sunday morning sermon after another Saturday night shooting, of gun advocates’ clichés and — worse — of expecting it to happen again soon.
If you don’t do something, “you are complicit,” organizers told participants who came from across the nation to Riverside Church in New York City Oct. 6-7.
According to Amy Butler, senior minister of Riverside Church and conference catalyst, those who do nothing are culpable in the 91 gun deaths every day in America, in ignoring the structural inequalities that lead to desperate acts, in denying the racism that fuels fear, and in trusting the false security of guns over trust in God.
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