"If all you have is a gun, everything is a target" - Archbishop Rowan Williams
"If all you have is a gun, everything is a target" - Archbishop Rowan Williams
BBC4
December 22, 2012
In his final Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4, the Archbishop of Canterbury talks about the recent killings in Connecticut and discounts the argument often put forward that "it's not guns that kill, it's people", saying:
"People use guns. But in a sense guns use people, too. When we have the technology for violence easily to hand, our choices are skewed and we are more vulnerable to being manipulated into violent action."
He acknowledges that "control of the arms trade, whether for individuals or for nations, won't in itself stop the impulse to violence and slaughter" but argues that:
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
BBC4
December 22, 2012
In his final Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4, the Archbishop of Canterbury talks about the recent killings in Connecticut and discounts the argument often put forward that "it's not guns that kill, it's people", saying:"People use guns. But in a sense guns use people, too. When we have the technology for violence easily to hand, our choices are skewed and we are more vulnerable to being manipulated into violent action."
He acknowledges that "control of the arms trade, whether for individuals or for nations, won't in itself stop the impulse to violence and slaughter" but argues that:
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
No comments:
Post a Comment