Bishop Barber: Statement on Raleigh’s Mass Shootings
CONTACT: Yolanda Barksdale | ybarksdale@breachrepairers.org
As a pastor, I know death is hard. But senseless death in the form of social hell that traumatized us all must move us to action, especially our political leaders. We’ve got to get guns off the street in order to de-escalate gun violence. When the killers are our own children, what are we as adults doing wrong? There have been more than 17 mass killings in NC. 700 people die every day from poverty, and hundred from lack of health care. At some point, we must use public policy to shift our violent ways and outcomes.
What is the body count? How many more tears? How many more broken families, how many more terrorized communities? When will we say as a nation that unnecessary death is no longer an option? Let’s pray, comfort one another, and change.