Purrs 4 Peace Week 23-Lay down the guns

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Studies have shown that homicide and suicide rates tend to be related to firearm ownership levels. The gun ownership per capita in the U.S. exceeds that of other industrialized nations and our homicide and suicide rates reflect it.

According to the American Bar Association’s Special Committee on Gun Violence:

“The rate of death from firearms in the United States is eight times higher than that in its economic counterparts in other parts of the world.” Moreover

“The overall firearm-related death rate among U.S. children younger than 15 years of age is nearly 12 times higher than among children in 25 other industrialized countries combined.”

I know some will shout “Second Amendment” gives them the Constitutional right to bear arms. But I prefer to remember the Declaration of Independence and its recognition that there are certain unalienable rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I think the right to life trumps the right to bear arms.

Wake up humans. Guns solve nothing.

Nonviolence doesn't always work - but violence never does. ~Madge Micheels-Cyrus

2:59 p.m. Get ready to Purrrrrrrr.

SET.

3:00 P.M.

Confucius Cat say: GO!

Purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr,. Purrrrr,purrrrrr.....

Love, peace, light is in you and spreading outward into the world....

Purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrrr, ppurrrrinnnnnnnggggggg.

Where there is fear, let it be turned to compassion. Where there is ignorance, let it be turned to understanding.

Purrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrr, purrrrr,

Those who hate, turn to love. Those who have guns...lay down those guns.

Purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrr, purrrrr, purrrrr....

Imagine the news headline: no one in the world died from gun violence today.

Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..................

Peace * Paix * Frieden * Vrede * Pace * Paz * Shalom * Salaam * Om Shanti * Heddwch * Síochán