People kill people.
That's what the bumper-sticker says. In fact, I'm somewhat ambivalent about guns. My people didn't need Waco or President Clinton to convince us that the IRS doesn't have a monopoly on big government tyranny. However, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Dr. King, the Dalai Lama and, especially, Jesus, have shaken my primitive belief in the American religion of redemptive violence at its foundation. So let's take a cursory glance at this gun issue.