Indian religious chief meets President Biden, suggests ‘peace education’ to sort out gun violence in US

Jain chief Acharya Lokesh Muni met President Biden in Los Angeles final week on the sidelines of a Democratic Party occasion.

Acharya Lokesh Muni with US President Joe Biden. (Photo: Facebook/ACHARYALOKESHMUNI)

An Indian religious chief has met US President Joe Biden and steered introducing “peace education” in American colleges to sort out the rising incidents of gun violence within the nation.

Jain chief Acharya Lokesh Muni, who’s at the moment on a month-long journey to the US, met President Biden in Los Angeles final week on the sidelines of a Democratic Party occasion.

“The problem is not only guns, but the problem is with the mindset, the real solution is to train that mindset inside our brain,” Muni advised Biden in the course of the assembly.

“We need to introduce ‘Peace Education’ from the primary level itself, and if we are successful in doing this, then we will find a permanent solution,” he asserted.

On May 24, a gunman stormed into an elementary faculty in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 youngsters and two academics, within the deadliest faculty capturing within the US in practically a decade.

Since that bloodbath, a number of celebrities from totally different walks in life have appealed for guaranteeing “gun responsibility” within the US.

But Muni supplied a unique tackle this advanced, deep-rooted and multi-faceted challenge.

“Gun is only an instrument, it is a tool, the real problem is the human brain. I am not saying this only being an Indian monk or a Jain saint. It is a scientific truth, medical science also accepts that it if the student’s sympathetic nervous system is more active than either the parasympathetic nervous system, he or she will either go into an inferiority complex or become so aggressive as seen by students shooting several people in Texas and at the University of Virginia,” he defined.

Gun violence is a number one explanation for untimely loss of life within the US. Guns kill greater than 38,000 folks and trigger practically 85,000 accidents every year, in keeping with the American Public Health Association.