Michael Zimmerman
5 min readSep 3, 2019

No, Tony Perkins, the teaching of evolution isn’t the cause of our mass shooting epidemic

August saw 53 people killed in mass shootings in the United States. Since the perpetrators of this carnage in El Paso, Dayton and Odessa, Texas, as in most other such events, were white males born in the United States, it has become increasingly difficult to blame such violence on immigrants and/or people of color.

Michael Zimmerman

Founder and executive director of The Clergy Letter Project, Ph.D. in ecology, promoter of the liberal arts, long-time academic administrator