For years I have been concerned about the availability of serious guns, not for hunting, in our society. I have worked with Mothers Against Violence and support a group called WAVE to end a loop hole in Wisconsin law that allows persons who should not own a gun by Federal law to purchase one without a background check. Any change, except to make guns more available, looses, and those who want to limit availability of serious guns are constantly put on the defense.

With the gun violence on our streets, the wars we support and wage all over the world, the guns we export to Mexico and other countries and the gun violence in our entertainment industry it seems clear that we in the USA live in a culture of violence. However, the violence is so ingrained and embedded in our culture often we cannot see it. Even a Catholic University, like Marquette University, can be a military base and teach reflexive killing, Killing without conscience and not much is made of it.

However, there are prophets, who in times of the tragedy of violence like in Tucson, try to wake us up and look at the question of the availability of guns in our society. On the Featured Article web page I put an article by a writer/lawyer who tries to wake us up. The article is called Serious Guns and White Terrorism: Two Unasked Questions in Tucson Mass Murder.

Serious guns require serious discussion.

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