Gun Battle
Debating the Right to Bear Arms
With Rabbi Ari Sollish
(Recorded live in Atlanta on June 17, 2020)
The stories in the news are heartbreaking and gut-wrenching. Another person comes with firearms and starts shooting at people. In a movie theater, a classroom, the workplace—it’s the same horrific scene.
What are we supposed to do about gun violence? Should we seek to change permissive gun laws? Should we alter restrictive gun laws? How do we balance competing interests? Should we let the evil of the few result in a restriction of freedom for the many? What teachings from the Torah are relevant to this topic, and how might they shape the discussion?
In this landmark session we look at the gun control debate through the lens of modern society and Jewish wisdom.
