The Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence Archives

Question of the Day II: Is Gun Control a Tenet of Christianity?

January 24, 2011 by William C. Montgomery

Is gun control a religious issue? More pointedly, it is a tenant of Christianity? Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence president Paul Helmke, Republican former mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, says that for him it is. Since the interview took place on PBS’s Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, a program that that I’m sure nobody in America actually watches, click here for the transcript. “[Gun control] does fit into my religious tradition,” Helmke says. “I went to a Lutheran grade school growing up. We talked about nonviolence. The story of the garden of Gethsemane is put down that sword…

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Good Friday Protest at Philladelphia’s Shooter Shop

April 4, 2010 by Robert Farago

The Huffington Post never met a gun control article it didn’t like. As home for Josh Sugarmann of The Violence Policy Center and Paul Helmke of the The Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence, you’d think the Post would have the whole anti-gun thing covered. But no, publishing gun control rants just comes natural (like the first breath of a baby). So, to mark Good Friday, the HuffPo presented a piece by Shane Claiborne: Death Be Not Proud: The Easter Gospel of Non-Violence. The headline’s taunt sets the tone for a strange blend of traditional Christian proselytizing and a major mea culpa-–which clears the deck for more sanctimonious lecturing. The editorial was designed to explain the Easter protests outside Lockheed Martin and Philadelphia’s Shooter Shop gun store [defended by the flag waivers above]. And so it does, in its own special way. First, the gospel . . .

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