But not for thee, says the Vatican. The Vatican News ran a column on the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health ruling, but they couldn’t leave it at that.
For life, always
Being for life, always, also means defending it against the threat of firearms, which unfortunately have become a leading cause of death of children and adolescents in the US.We can hope, therefore, that the debate on the US Supreme Court ruling will not be reduced to an ideological confrontation, but will prompt all of us—on both sides of the ocean—to reflect on what it means to welcome life, to defend it, and to promote it with appropriate legislation.
And the Vatican will show us the way by taking away the Swiss Guard‘s halberds and SG-550 full-auto assault rifles, and equipping them with powder puffs and super-soakers?
You know what didn’t happen yesterday? 100+ million American gun owners with some 400 million firearms did not murder anyone. But based on CDC data on defensive gun use, 4,000 people probably defended themselves and others using firearms.
How many of those thousands might be dead if their defensive tools were taken away through “appropriate legislation“? Most of us lack the pope’s 24/7 heavily armed security or the option of armored transportation; nor even massive defensive walls, from behind which to lecture others on open borders.
We would prefer to have the ability to defend ourselves and families because we still think we have something to lose.
Perhaps instead of focusing on the inanimate implement, the Vatican should consider what sets the comparatively few murderers apart from the tens of millions of honest, peaceable gun owners who do not murder.
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It is not really fair for me to comment on this, probably, since I am not a Catholic, and have some pretty strong feelings about their doctrines, that could show my opposition to them.
But I can speak to the hypocrisy on the gun issue, since it shows that they have more in common with the Democrat Socialists than they do with conservatives. It has often been said that America was founded on Judeo Christian principles. I am not certain that it is completely correct to say that, but I understand why that is said, and what people mean when they say it.
Perhaps it would be better to say that America was founded on moral theistic principles. That at least seems to be more in line with what more of the founding fathers intended. Some of them were very religious, some not so much, and some were either agnostic, or even antagonistic towards religion. But I don’t think it is saying too much to say that they all agreed that people should be morally decent, kind people, who did not harm others, and should be free to live as they wished.
The Vatican would never want that for people, because they prefer to be in charge of how people live, and what they believe. I will say no more, other than that I am glad that America has the constitution that we do, and that we have a Supreme Court that is beginning to reaffirm it.
Should I ever run for office, and the country would have to be in truly dire straights for that to happen, one of my campaign promises would be “If elected, I am sponsoring a bill that any, and I mean ANY politician that sponsors or votes for gun control legislation will no longer be afforded taxpayer funded security. You don’t get to vote to make American families vulnerable while living in safety off their money”. Thus why I will never be asked to run for office, or elected. #EndElitism