Cardinal joins calls for new gun-control laws

December 17, 2012

Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley has called for tighter restrictions on firearms ownership in the wake of the Newtown school massacre.

The cardinal referred to the killing of 20 schoolchildren as “a tragedy of almost Biblical proportion.” An AP report said: “He also said the massacre is a ‘clarion call’ for legislation to keep automatic weapons out of the hands of private citizens.” ( It is not clear whether the cardinal himself used the term “automatic weapons.” No automatic weapons were involved in the Newtown massacre.)

In Washington, DC, an Episcopalian bishop issued an even more urgent call for new gun-control laws. “If we only pray and do not act, we are complicit” in the killings, said Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.

 

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Further information:

• Cardinal: killings "clarion call" for new gun laws (AP)
• National Cathedral, bishop advocate gun control (AP)