11 Last Wishes - 3rd edition

*Not surprisingly – though quite ironically – -- the Harvard University Injury
Control Research Center also noted that, by a margin of more than 3 to 1, Americans feel
less safe, not safer, when others in their community acquire guns.
Now I realize that many people around the world have been indoctrinated by
cultures where gun ownership is equated with safety and empowerment, and yet the fact
of the matter is that owning guns actually make one less safe and less empowered.
* Every time a weapon is purchased, our faith in the Goodness of others is
weakened – a Goodness that is the only real hope for Humanity. Indeed, every gun that
is bought is a theft from those who are hungry but have not yet been fed, is a theft from
those who are cold but have not yet been clothed, and is a theft from those who are
homeless but have not yet been offered shelter.
*Even worse, every time a weapon is drawn, our faith in Love is shackled, a faith
in the innate power of caring & Kindness that is the only hope for our real Happiness.
Indeed, every gun that is brandished is a theft from those who would know Peace, for
there can be no Peace with our enemies while we defend ourselves against them.
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