Non Violence In Jail Analysis

Dr King, if you could see us now – with a Black President in the White House and fifty plus years beyond your incarceration – what would you say? Would you praise God and retire to your church as an esteemed elder? Would you give Him thanks for the progress of your country, or would you judge us as you did in 1963? Would you believe we still weep for you 48 years after they killed you (you predicted your violent end, but death is still death even for a Christian)? Would you believe that universities still set your Letter in assignments (like this one) and that presidential candidates can be racist and not put in jail? You know your Letter is pretty good: every line so clear, every argument apposite (good reading for students). We think its brilliance comes from desperation and you having plenty of fee time in jail. Or, perhaps there was a good editor at The Atlantic Monthly.
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We have a country overrun with guns, but we are incapable of taking effective action against the situation. Evidently, my right to order is to be enforced by my right to a gun. The disorder of the few justifies my use of violence. Your Letter speaks in many place of the importance of non-violence. Non-violence as a weapon of political action we understand in theory. But when it comes to non-violence as a way life, we fail to grasp the concept. Those in conflict over guns include Christians (www.westernseminary.edu/transformedblog/2015/02/06/should-christians-carry-guns/). Scripture does not forbid us to carry. But, guns were not invented 2,000 years ago and it would be difficult to oppose the carrying of knives. It appears that some of the most outspoken about the right to carry (even in the Lord’s House) are those who speak for Christians. We had a candidate for the Presidency from the cold north who was hot on guns and Christianity. We know what you would have said to