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I got a note from Scott in West Seattle, who suggested this.

鈥淔or as long as Congress dithers on gun control, the government should pay all related medical costs — for life — for anyone wounded by a gun.鈥�

More from Dave Ross: After the Nashville shooting, is this finally enough?

Assuming he’s talking about innocent people, I like Scott鈥檚 idea.聽 In fact, I鈥檇 extend it 鈥� I鈥檇 compensate survivors; I鈥檇 reimburse families who lose the income of a breadwinner, and I鈥檇 have gun manufacturers pay for it.

That can鈥檛 repair the psychological damage, but it would help make life a little easier.

So, thank you, Scott鈥� I鈥檓 glad there are people looking for solutions.

However 鈥� I don鈥檛 see anything like that getting past Congress right now.

Which got me thinking about something else: there is one group that has been silent in all this.

The activists who pushed to overturn Roe v Wade.

I know they care about what happened in Nashville, Uvalde, and Newtown. I know they pray about it. I know they see it as 鈥減ure Evil鈥� 鈥� just as they saw abortion, but when it came to changing the Supreme Court, they didn’t just use prayer 鈥� they used politics.

Well, unless you want those kids born into a world of active shooter drills, it鈥檚 time to do that again.

And you can call these shootings 鈥減ure Evil,鈥� but for those of us who pray 鈥� and yes, I do pray 鈥� it should be clear by now that God is not going to ride in on a cloud and end that 鈥減ure Evil.鈥� He鈥檚 not going to confiscate guns from the people who shouldn鈥檛 have them. He is not going to send a magic rain that cleanses all mental illness and drains away all human resentment.

If you believe in an all-powerful God, the only conclusion you can reach is that He is going to allow these tragedies to continue until we聽choose to stop them.

And if you were called by your religious beliefs to fight for the lives of an innocent fetus 鈥� I think God is calling you again to protect the innocent lives of those already born. I think God is again telling all of us that prayer isn鈥檛 enough. Fortunately, we live in a Democracy designed to respond to the demands of the people.

And as luck would have it, the politicians who have opposed any meaningful attempt to fix this problem tend to be religious 鈥� mostly Christian.

So, tell them: praying isn鈥檛 enough.聽 Tell them to do what God is clearly challenging them to do. And 鈥渄ithering,鈥� isn鈥檛 it.

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