Article snippet: Posted at 6:00 pm on July 20, 2017 by Jim Jamitis If only the problem of violence in our cities were this easy to solve. The Baltimore Sun reports on a 44 year old mother Erricka Bridgeford’s simple message to her city: “Nobody kill anybody.” There can be no doubt or debate that this movement is coming from a good place in people’s hearts but its impact is likely to be minimal at best. The problem of violence doesn’t come from a scarcity of people saying that killing is bad. It comes from a broken culture in which people no longer care about the difference between good and evil. The moral foundations have been discarded, the nuclear family has been erased, and chaos has been the result. In a way it’s similar to the radical feminist calls to “teach men not to rape.” It presupposes that people only do bad things because they haven’t been made aware that they are bad things. The “if it saves one life” argument applies to this grass roots effort much better than to any of the tyrannical gun control laws for which similar arguments are used. However, making a real dent in the problem of urban gun violence is going to take a sustained effort from families determined to repair a broken culture and be vigilant against negative influences on their kids. It’s not a problem that will be fixed in a weekend. It may take generations. Link to the full article to read more