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Do you mean mass shootings? Are you asking why don't more Christians rise up to advocate strongly to do more to stop mass shootings? Well, we are just individuals, and here in a discussion forum, often people are just trying to convince others about their own viewpoints. Speaking for myself, I've tried to tell others they should value society's regulating weapons, and I'm very willing to give up some freedoms in order that other people are more safe. Even a lot if needed! -- even to a 1rst Corinthians chapter 8 and Romans chapter 14 level: even something as good and enjoyable as eating meat could be sacrificed, if that is what it takes to save someone's ultimate Life.... But that's exactly because I understand that this temporary life is a place of choice, and that there is a deeper reality that our choices will matter ultimately. It will matter ultimately how we treat others.Ecclesiastes is one of my most favorite books of the Bible.
Life is the only thing we know, and even then, is fragile and temporary. There is no life after death, no judge other than ourselves, no absolute morality or ethics, and no means of absolute knowledge. Even so, I think the excessive killing of people should be focused on as a whole issue of "Why do we allow this to happen without social repercussions?" rather than as compartmentalized into a religious issue.
You are already agreeing to that in a way, in that you value life, and that's a value, instead of having no valuing. I don't want to bring in a wrong connotation from like calling it 'morality' (possibly adding some extra sense or flavor I don't want to address here). I mean you have a value system there, even with just 1 principle, already.
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