Catholic Leaders Urge ‘Both/And’ Response to Spate of Mass Shootings
June 8, 2022
Responses to a slew of gun violence in recent weeks, including mass shootings at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have fallen along predictable party lines.
Republicans have tended to focus on the social and familial breakdowns that often contribute to these kinds of shootings, while Democrats have largely pushed for an increase in gun regulations, with both sides engaged in a zero-sum game of partisan brinksmanship.
