Gun Violence

Gun Violence Prevention Month: The Work of RAWtools

June 2, 2023

General, Gun Violence, Peace & Nonviolence, Revival

According to the Gun Violence Archive, over 44,000 people died by firearm in 2022. That’s 120 people per day. Gun Violence is now the leading cause of death for kids under the age of 18 - not car crashes or can...

RAWTOOLS Guns to Garden Tools Livestream Blacksmith Marathon

RLC Editor

June 1, 2023

General, Gun Violence, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics

RAWTOOLS NATIONAL 44K EVENT - MAY 31- JUNE 30 Guns to Garden Tools Livestream Blacksmith Marathon in Remembrance of Over 44,000 Individuals Lost to Gun Violence in 2022 Throughout Gun Violence Awareness Mo...

On Mother’s Day: Faith leaders call to end gun violence

RLC Editor

May 14, 2023

General, Gun Violence, Interfaith, Peace & Nonviolence, Press Releases, Women

Editor's Note: This press release first appeared on Religion News Service on May 2, 2023. Over 550 faith leaders call for Mother’s Day to be declared a national day of prayer, mourning, repentance, and c...

Capitalizing on Panic

Rosalind Hughes

April 18, 2023

General, Gun Violence, Peace & Nonviolence

I saw a story in The Washington Post where a man named Kevin Thomas started making pop-up safe rooms for schools – kind of like the panic rooms that became a status symbol in the late last millennium, denoting ...

60 Years Ago: MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail – A Reading

RLC Editor

April 16, 2023

General, Global, Gun Violence, Interfaith, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Practical Justice, Race

60 years ago today, Dr. King wrote his letter from the Birmingham jail. It speaks to the moment we are living in right now. A few years ago @RedLetterXians faith leaders read it in its entirety… check it out he...

Christ, Not Guns: A Reflection on the Nashville Shooting

Shane Claiborne

March 31, 2023

Death Penalty, General, Gun Violence, Interfaith, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice, Revival

It happened again. This time, 6 people were killed, three of them 9-year-old children. Gun violence has hit nearly every community in our country – from small towns like Hesston, KS to large cities like Orlando...

Greeting the Prince of Peace 10 Years After Sandy Hook

RLC Editor and Shane Claiborne

December 22, 2022

General, Gun Violence

Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared in Religion News Service. The Christmas season makes room for commemorations of violence done against the innocent. It’s now been 10 years since the shooting at S...

The Shooting in Buffalo Happened within a Context of Complicity with White Supremacy

Jemar Tisby

December 14, 2022

Gun Violence, Race

Editor’s note: this piece first appeared on the RLC blog on May 16, 2022. On Saturday, May 14, 2022 a young man entered a grocery store in predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York and opened fir...

It’s been a week since the Club Q shooting. Let’s not move on.

Shane Claiborne

December 1, 2022

General, Gun Violence, LGBTQ+, Peace & Nonviolence, Race

Note: This piece originally appeared in Religion News Service. The LGBTQ community continues to bear a disproportionate amount of hateful gun violence in America. It has been a week since the Club Q shooting ...

Statement regarding Parkland School Shooting Jury Recommendation

Sharon Risher

October 13, 2022

Death Penalty, Gun Violence

I offer my prayers and love to the families, co-victims and survivors of all of those killed and injured in the Parkland school shooting. As I watched the hearing this morning I remembered sitting in a...