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Aired Tuesday, 10 April 2018, 5:00 PM ESTGuns and the Right to Bear Arms – Beyond Victims and VillainsA Conversation with Progressive Gun-Owner Veronica Monet“Every child should learn the appropriate use of arms — for hugging.” — Swami BeyondanandaThe problem with “hot button” issues like gun control / 2nd Amendment rights is that they are “hot” — lots of heat, not nearly enough light. From the meta-view, they keep the culture wars alive, and this war prevents “we the people” from uniting around the larger issues of governance, what my friend and associate Joseph McCormick calls “who’s in charge of who’s in charge”.So it may be that the Parkland students’ movement, while seeking to address the problem at a higher level, could easily be diverted into positionality that avoids the real problem. This week’s guest, self-described progressive and gun-owner Veronica Monet takes us deeper into the conversation: Why IS the school-shooting problem so indigenous to the USA? How do we protect the rights of individual ci