Religious leaders of different faiths honor victims of mass shooting, call for change
1:49 PM EST Feb 16, 2018
Article from the WWII web page written by Steve King
Religious leaders of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths gathered at Temple Emanuel in Greensboro to honor the lives of the people killed in the mass shooting in Florida and make a call for change.
GREENSBORO, N.C. —
Religious leaders of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths gathered at Temple Emanuel in Greensboro to honor the lives of the people killed in the mass shooting in Florida and make a call for change.
The memorial service was held on Thursday night. Rabbis, pastors and an imam spoke at the event and prayed.
“I woke up this morning and I really felt that God had commanded us to come together as various religious faith traditions to bring forth this issue and I also feel that the souls of 17 people who were murdered also commands us to say, ‘Do something to try to prevent this from happening,” said Rabbi Fred Guttman of Temple Emanuel.
“Whether or not it can be totally prevented I don’t know, but we can do things to prevent things from happening as much so there’s a sense of religious obligation to honor their memories.”
Religious leaders who spoke at the memorial urged people in attendance to contact their state and federal lawmakers in order to ask them to enact laws that could prevent mass shootings from happening again.
Greensboro Police Chief Wayne Scott and Guilford County Schools officials also spoke at the memorial service. They talked about the need for everyone in the community to work together in order for gun violence to end. While Chief Scott says that while anyone with information about criminal activity need to contact police in order to help end gun violence, law enforcement is only part of the answer.
