USCCB publishes brief text on gun violence

November 04, 2025

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CWN Editor's Note: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has published “A Mercy and Peacebuilding Approach to Gun Violence,” a two-page updated “backgrounder” on gun violence.

“When the preservation of life is at issue, we must respond,” the text begins. “There are tens of thousands of gun-related deaths each year in the United States. A majority of these deaths are the result of suicide. This epidemic of violence is present in every community and affects the people of God in our dioceses and parishes.”

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• Posted by: feedback - Today 8:13 AM ET USA

  No one commits a suicide out of sheer "violence," or just because they own a gun. The epidemic of suicides, while profoundly tragic, has little to do with "gun violence." Just sayin...