A leader of Reform Judaism called upon churches and synagogues throughout the United States to lay to campaign vigorously for strong gun-control legislation. Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, urged an intensive and continuing educational campaign which will “put spine into a Congress which seems incapable of matching the critical need of the day with desperately needed action.”
Rabbi Eisendrath advocated legislation that would require the registration of guns, licensing of owners and the banning of inter-state purchase of arms. “Rarely has the will of the people for sanity been more manifest,” the rabbi said, “and rarely has that will been so cravenly and obtusely ignored.”
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