Dr dear Dr: Why the emphasis outside of the NRA conference halls today on gun control when everyone knows that only forthright action at Congress can change the way we live in America?

Unpleasant messy job, that of the civil lawmakers, much respect for them, especially in a pluralistico society like modern immigratious Americay. Churchmen should maybe avoid tangling with those busy guys and dolls for some time, as Bp Wilton DG has it by the grace of God, avoiding Evangelical PG Interventionism in church and state and their imposing impatient penalties on the like, since in 002 of the CCC, not referring to a Scottish agent, it makes it clear that the mandate of the Founder to his 12 apostles, not ours, inclusive of Myriam, was first to preach the religious, not political, gospel and baptise adults in the name of God, simple as riding a bicycle, this is not rocket science, never supposed to be such either. Simple really - it is evangelize adults or die. Back in the 1990s the French church took refuge from this Vip mission by catechising children and practising absenteeism from all serious adult debate, with the not totally surprising consequences eventually unfolding as a result, as per Paris 2021 with 3,000 cases against charismatic touchy-feely clerics from young people, 80% involving boys (Mt 28, Acts 10).