North Carolina Religious Group’s Billboard Takes Aim At Guns: Guns Aren’t ‘The Solution To Our Safety’

It’s not the guns, it’s the operators.

Via WBTV:

A North Carolina-based religious group is taking their message about guns to the streets with a billboard with their “crucial message” about guns and your safety.

The North Carolina Council of Churches has put up a billboard along interstates 85 and 40 in the Burlington area and taking aim at gun violence.

The billboard, which was put up Monday, reads “You shall not make for yourself an idol,” quoting the 2nd Commandment from the Bible. The message sits beside a photo of different types of guns on a bed of bullets.

“For many of us, guns have become the symbol of safety, the idol we turn to because we ‘believe in them’ to keep us safe,” officials with the North Carolina Council of Churches told WBTV. “God commands the people not to have any idols. Idols can assume a lot of guises in our world that we don’t immediately understand as idolatry.”

The council says the billboard is expected to stay up for the next four weeks and is the first in a series of messages planned over the coming months. They plan to erect a new billboard in a different part of the state throughout the summer “reminding people there is a different way of framing the conversation,” officials told WBTV.

“Nearly 70% of the people who carry a gun claim they do so for safety, while the statistics clearly show guns make us less safe. This makes guns a false idol,” council officials said. “To this end, the Council is trying to reframe some of the contentious issues in the public discourse by reminding people of faith of the guiding principles found in our scriptures and our creeds.”

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