Review: Could a student's thoughtful thesis change the USA?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 2, 2012
The question is: how do we get a handle on the nightmarish gun violence in this country that is yielding more corpses per capita than in any other country while at the same time refraining from  violating the deeply held beliefs of many Americans about the meaning and intent of the 2nd Amendment?  Someone in this book comes up with a great idea about how to get us there and someone else hones the ideas, anticipating problems and objections, and the solution/thesis is sent via email to the Seat of Power.  But some anti-solution folks have set up a devilishly evil conspiracy to keep gun sales undisturbed.The most amusing or maybe the only amusing aspect of the book is the ultimate incomptence of the conspirators.The most cheering aspect of the book (for me) is the importance and heroism of the mixed race heroes.  They are "mixed" in many ways -- multiple languages, multiple places of residency, multiple sets of loyalties.  It is the mixedness that leads to the solution idea.But having read it long enough ago to have freed myself from the emotional pull of the characters and their personal dilemmas I find myself thinking a lot about the proposed solution to our problem and wondering if it could work?  Hoping it might work.  Wondering if it has built in problems I don't know enough to anticipate.I want to know more about the proposed solution.