"Gun Violence": The "National Conversation" We Won't Have
• by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)Gabrielle
Giffords, the “surprise witness” at the January 30 Senate hearing on gun
violence, was among thirteen people attacked by a deranged gunman in the
parking lot of a Safeway in Tucson two years ago. Vanessa Guerena, another
Tucson resident whose
husband was murdered in an act of gun-related criminal violence in their living
room about four months later, was not given an opportunity to address the
Senate panel. That’s because her husband’s killers – who remain at large –
committed that crime under the color of state “authority.”
