Gun Violence in America
Tue, Sep 26
|Hot Springs
The Hon. Wendell Griffin will be speaking at our September meeting on the epidemic of gun violence in Arkansas and the U.S. Social time starts at 5:30 pm with the meeting convening at 6:00 pm. Cash bar and snacks available for purchase.
Time & Location
Sep 26, 2023, 5:30 PM
Hot Springs, 1008 Central Ave, Hot Springs National Park, AR 71901, USA
About the Event
Wendell Griffin will take a critical look at the connection between gun violence - in Arkansas and the US
- and the myths too many of us have uncritically accepted as truth. Hence, we see no disconnect
between the hypocrisy and gun violence, in Arkansas and across the US. He considesr what theologian
Walter Wink called “the myth of redemptive violence”—the belief that violence saves, that war brings
peace, and that might makes right— to be delusional. This hypocrisy has us teaching children to sing
“Let There Be Peace On Earth” despite knowing we live in the US, the society Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.