The Gunfight Over Good And Evil

In wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy, FoxNews.com reports that the National Rifle Association is backing legislation that would improve national background checks for gun purchasing and thus improve the likelihood of keep guns out of the hands of murderous individuals (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,267620,00.html). At the same time, posts on the internet from some gun-store proprietors of the mom-and-pop variety and their most enthusiastic supporters reflect a greater interest in the broad arming of any citizen, and are portraying gun-toting enthusiasts as volunteer soldiers in a battle of good over evil.

Though we typically do not apply the term evil to ourselves, it would be the rare person that did not at times struggle over the self inflicted woe that we have come to call evil