Rabbi: Let guns be made differently

PASSOVER EDITION 5775 SECTION A PAGE 8 Joel Mosbacher’s father was shot to death during a petty burglary at his Chicago business in 1999 — and that act will repeat itself in one form or another 36,000 times in 2015. It might happen at school, in a crowded movie theater, as coworkers eat their lunch or when an abusive husband fatally shoots his wife. While Colorado has witnessed all of the above, it’s only a matter of time before the cycle of gun violence recurs here and elsewhere, says Mosbacher, 44. Mosbacher co-chairs the national Do Not Stand Idly By (DNSIB) campaign, based on the biblical injunction, “Do not stand idly by while your neighbor’s blood is shed.” The interfaith coalition of Jews, Christians and […]