接连发生大规模枪击事件，造成31人死亡，数十人受伤，唐纳德·特朗普总统的福音顾问罗伯特·杰弗里斯建议，可以通过教导儿童“他们对自己的行为要对上帝负责”来防止这种暴力行为

“我不反对立法，”杰弗里斯说在福克斯新闻的一次露面中周四。这位南方浸礼会牧师告诉主持人香农·布雷姆，枪支暴力“有一个精神组成部分”被忽视了。

杰弗里斯说:“我是说，我们能做的一件事就是停止我们社会中的这种贬低人类生命的行为，这种行为在我们的文化中被视为对暴力的颂扬。”。“通过大规模屠杀一整群未出生的公民，通过教导我们的孩子他们不是别的，而是进化的意外，而不是教导我们的孩子他们是上帝创造的，他们对上帝有价值，他们对自己的行为对上帝负责。”

在发布到杰弗里斯Youtube频道的这段视频中，布莱姆强调了最近op-ed前阿肯色州州长迈克·哈克比讲述了德克萨斯州和俄亥俄州的大规模枪击事件。

哈克比认为，大规模枪击事件总是会在美国发生，“直到我们重新唤醒道德和价值观。”他补充说，尽管“所有人都谴责为受害者祈祷的想法”，他将继续为那些受枪击事件影响的人祈祷。

福克斯的《不来梅》稍微批评了哈克比的逻辑，说“重要的是我们要记住，在凯恩用石头打死亚伯的时间里，这些武器会杀死更多的人。”

杰弗里斯还击，告诉毕蔓，他并不是想说美国“不应该做任何事”来解决大规模枪击和枪支暴力。

“我想我们都明白第二修正案有其局限性，就像第一修正案有言论自由一样，”他继续说。“我们不认为每个人都有权拥有核武器。我们不认为4岁的孩子应该有枪，”杰弗里斯说。

枪击事件再次引发了对枪支管制的呼吁。但是甚至在埃尔帕索和代顿悲剧之前，盖洛普记录25年来支持更严格枪支法律的最高水平。

俄亥俄州副州长乔恩·胡斯德(Jon Husted)表示，他希望特朗普对代顿的访问将改变他通过更严格枪支立法的想法。“当他访问现场，看到弹孔和血迹时，我认为这对你作为一个人有影响，”他说。

起初，总统将大规模枪击事件归咎于除枪支之外的几乎一切，包括白人至上、精神疾病、电子游戏和互联网。周一，在他关于枪击事件的第一次公开演讲中，他坚持认为“是精神疾病扣动了扳机，而不是枪。”

但是周五，总统似乎改变了他的论调。他告诉记者，他想让国会中的共和党人围绕更强有力的枪支购买背景调查团结起来。他还表示，立法者更愿意通过“危险信号”法，允许法院发布命令，暂时没收被认为对他人或自己有危险的人的枪支。

特朗普说:“我觉得现在做一些有意义的事情会有更好的感觉。”。
 

TRUMP'S EVANGELICAL ADVISER SUGGESTS TEACHING CHILDREN THAT THEY'RE 'ACCOUNTABLE TO GOD FOR THEIR ACTIONS' CAN HELP REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE

In the wake of back-to-back mass shootings that killed 31 people and injured dozens more, President Donald Trump's evangelical adviser Robert Jeffress suggested that such violence could be prevented by teaching children that "they are accountable to God for their actions."

"I'm not arguing against legislation," Jeffress said during an appearance on Fox News on Thursday. The Southern Baptist pastor told host Shannon Bream that "there is a spiritual component" to gun violence that is being ignored.

"I'm saying that one thing we can do is quit this devaluation of human life in our society that is seen by the glorification of violence in our culture," Jeffress said. "By the mass slaughter of a whole class of citizens - the unborn - by teaching our children that they're not nothing but an evolutionary accident instead of teaching our children that they are created by God, they are of value to God and they are accountable to God for their actions."

During the segment, which was posted to Jeffress' Youtube channel, Bream highlighted a recent op-ed by former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee about the mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.

Huckabee argued that mass shootings were always going to happen in America "until we have a reawakening of morality and values." He added that he would continue praying for those affected by the shootings despite "all those who are denouncing the idea of prayers for the victims."

Fox's Bream slightly criticized Huckabee's logic, saying it's "important that we remember that these weapons will kill dozens more people in the time that it took Cain to beat Abel to death with a stone."

Jeffress fired back, telling Beaman that he wasn't trying to say that the U.S. "shouldn't do anything" to address mass shootings and gun violence.

"I think we all understand that the Second Amendment has limits to it, just like the First Amendment with free speech does," he continued. "We don't believe everybody has a right to have a nuclear weapon. We don't believe that 4-year-olds ought to have guns," Jeffress said.

The shootings have renewed calls for gun control. But even before the tragedies in El Paso and Dayton, Gallup recorded the highest level of support for stricter gun laws in 25 years.

Ohio Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted said he hoped Trump's visit to Dayton would change his mind on passing stricter gun legislation. "When he visits the site and sees the bullet holes and the blood stains, I think that has an effect on you as a human being," he said.

At first, the president blamed the mass shootings on just about everything but guns, including white supremacy, mental illness, video games and the internet. On Monday, in his first public address on the shootings, he insisted that "mental illness pulls the trigger, not the gun.

But on Friday, the president seemed to change his tune. He told reporters that he wanted to rally Republicans in Congress around stronger background checks for firearm purchases. He also said lawmakers are more open to passing "red flag" laws that would allow courts to issue orders to temporarily confiscate the guns of people deemed to be a risk to others or themselves.

"I see a better feeling right now toward getting something meaningful done," Trump said.