By Kimberly Winston | FiveThirtyEight
Published in November of 2021
SUMMARY: One pastor advocates for gun reform, the other trains and arms his congregation. Both had mass shootings take place at their churches. In this well-researched article, Kimberly Winston digs into the relationship between guns and Christians and what Christians, both armed and unarmed, are doing to prevent gun violence.
KEY QUOTE: “How did these two Christian leaders come to such opposite conclusions? Both read the same Bible, worship the same God and have suffered unfathomable losses to unspeakable violence at the hands of disturbed individuals who managed to acquire legal firearms. Yet on the issue of guns, there is a gulf between them.”
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