Deus Misereatur

  The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic Jillian Peterson and James Densley Abrams Press www.abramsbooks.com ISBN: 978-1-4197-5295-7; $28.00; September 2021   It’s all the rage! Almost every news feed and social media venue broadcasts it, some with greater alarm than others. And the glut of press it receives makes it feel like it’s happening everywhere, every day, in every neighborhood. It’s like a voracious beast that is growing and consuming all in its path. And then there are the pundits and professionals that describe it as a simple, single-item issue that calls for a simple, single-item remedy and they have the cure-all-fix-all remedy. But the trouble is far more problematical, which means a healthy response will likely be at several levels simultaneously. Into this hazy fog of violence has stepped a new book, “The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic” by Jillian Peterson, PhD, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Jus...

  O Eternal God, through whose mighty power our fathers won their liberties over two centuries ago; grant, please, that we and all the inhabitants of this land may have grace to maintain those liberties in righteousness and peace through Jesus Christ our Lord. Thank you, Lord, for these United States of America. Thank you that as the decades and centuries rolled on, we endeavored to become more and more consistent with our founding documents and principles. We rejoice in the ways our ancestors acted on the self-evident truths “that all men are created equal” and finally, after conflicts aplenty, secured the standing of black slaves, Native Americans, and immigrants.   And so, affirming “that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” our forebears hammered out these rights for all living. Further, once more, we are thankful for how this all was recently expanded to include not only the for...