Rabbi's response to San Bernardino shooting

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Rabbi's response to San Bernardino shooting

http://forward.com/opinion/326024/want- ... gs-scream/

In the past 336 days, there have been 355 mass shootings in this country.

This is already higher than the 2014 numbers, which surpassed 2013’s numbers. Of the 355 mass shootings in 2015, 52 of them were at schools, leaving 30 people dead and 53 others injured.

This means, from this rabbi’s narrow liturgical point of view, that there has rarely been a Shabbat over the last few years when there haven’t been names of gun victims for us, as an extended community and as an extended family, to mourn.

So many of us were raised to believe in American exceptionalism — that America is different, blessed. That sense is but a mirror image of how the Jews think of themselves — as different, as blessed, as exceptional.

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Bisbee

Re: Rabbi's response to San Bernardino shooting

2 by Bisbee

Stats may be off but takes nothing away from the point the Rabbi is making in his article. I also feel numb. Where is the screaming of pain? Notice there is no true dialogue as a nation? Nothing is happening. No realistic addressing of the problem of mass killing and suicide aside from fixating on the tools of such killings.

"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent." -Gandhi

begemot

Re: Rabbi's response to San Bernardino shooting

3 by begemot

Want a Jewish Response to San Bernardino Mass Shooting? Scream Bloody Murder.

How presumptuous. He doesn't speak for me.

Who will have to die this time? The firstborn of the head of the NRA? Will that work?

Keeping it classy.

And when the Israelites are enslaved in Egypt? They scream. They cry out loud to God. And God hears their cries and their moaning.

No, they don't whine to their invisible sky daddy and throw tantrums. They fight. With every tool available.

Reminds me why I'm an atheist and a gun owner. Awful op-ed.