The Common Good  The NRA's Dangerous Theology  Date: January 18,
2013  Tuesday was the 84th birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. I don't know about you, but I miss his words, so I
offer a few. King said "people often hate each other because
they fear each other, they fear each other because they don't
each other, they don't know each other because they cannot
communicate, they cannot communicate because they are
separated." I would add to his words: 'and in that separation
they seek guns.' As an evangelical Christian, I'm going to make
this theological.  Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of
the National Rifle Association, said this as his response to the
massacre of children at Sandy Hook elementary in Newtown, Conn.:
"the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy
with a gun."  That statement is at the heart of the problem of
gun violence in America today -- not just because it is
factually flawed, which of course it is, but also because it is
morally mistaken, theologically dang