Parakalein

I was in Huntington, LI the other day as a keynote speaker at a Wellness Day where I saw a t-shirt which read, "If we outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns!".  I mused about the safety of our world and what will make it a safer place for my 14 year old grandson, specifically or personally,  and also generally for the next generation as well.  It is not laws that make the world a safer place and space or the multitude of laws on the books would already have created a safer world.

As I was musing this I heard the news report of a shooting in Dorchester, MA where two young woman in a parked care will killed and two other sent to the hospital in an early morning shooting in that town.

I found myself further musing that it is the letter of th flaw and focusing on the letters of any law that not only kills but fosters the freedom to kill.  So how might I want to change that t-shirt if I would wear it.  No part of me does not get the sentiment of that woman sporting.  Her t shirt probably reflected her  concern for safety in her neighborhood or perhaps because she had been a victim of violence of one kind or another.  The world is full of tragedies of people who had gun violence that violated the space of pace and safety.  The reality is no gun laws will outlaw the anger and hurt that perpetuates violence in our world.

So here is my musing of a t-shirt:
"Hearts of Calmness and Compassion offer to
Wounded Hearts that might Reach for Guns the Courage
that Might let Grace not Guns settle their hurt"

Shortened:

"The Might of the Responsibility to bear Arms of Grace is
Mightier than the Right to bear Arms and Guns"

What will make our world a safer place is to help people who hold "hurt, pain, and anger" in their hart for experience a healing of the hurt, the liberty of healing, and the justice toward all.  Laws will never protect people form violence, no matter how well crafted and regardless of how protective of the right to bear arms and or how protective of society front hose who bear arms to do harm.  Violence will only cease when the hurt, pain and anger that is held in the heart is balanced by the holding and healing of that hurt heart. Violence toward others is an expression of the violence held in the heart.  Only when violence of the heart is healed and released form its burden will peace come and safety follow.

Intentional Acts of Kindness will lead people to Change to promote liberty and justice for all.
Hold it, Guns are not the problem People Are
People are not the Problem, They Just Hold It

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