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Last week, I was getting ready to join a COVID-19 emergency call with colleagues when my house started shaking. Once the earthquake stopped, I biked along my downtown Salt Lake City street checking on neighbors. In this unusual urban hush, it was striking to see cars pulled up in front of a downtown gun shop. People carried boxes of ammunition into their cars. I texted a couple of gun advocates.
Catherine Barber ([email protected]) is a senior researcher in the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, in Boston, Massachusetts. John W. Berrigan is a research assistant in the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Morissa Sobelson Henn is director of the Community Health Program at Intermountain Healthcare, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The rabbi in Concord, N.H., where I grew up, sent out an email to congregants this week explaining that the front doors of our temple will now be locked during religious school. It is a prudent security step. But it’s hard to stomach the physical hardening of a place I bounded freely through as a child — a seamless doorway between secular and spiritual, where engagement with community outside is as sacred as the Torah scrolls inside.
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