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We welcome back Councilperson David Heuvelman of the Norwalk, Connecticut, City Council for a candid discussion about guns.\\xa0 Gun control is the sort of subject that people tend to feel their eyes start to glaze over due to the rhetoric that surrounds the issue.

It's only when mass shootings occur (and we have had an amazing spate in the last month) do people start to actively pressure their elected officials to either do something or do nothing.\\xa0 It seems that the issue will be forever polarized.\\xa0 However, the first step in figuring out what to do about the culture of gun ownership in the United States is to understand why people own guns in the first place.\\xa0

This is where David Heuvelman comes in.\\xa0 Growing up in a family that for generations kept, used and admired guns, Heuvelman was raised to look at them as a useful tool for hunting, as well as a sports instrument for target practice. \\xa0 Through David, those of us who have not been raised with guns can appreciate why they play an important part in the lives of those who use them for those purposes.

Heuvelman, also being a councilperson, is part of a suburban city that has to wrestle with the consequences of those who have access for guns without the acclimation and training.\\xa0 Those people, especially those with mental illness, are increasingly part of the rash of mass killings.\\xa0 How to preserve rights and yet preserve society becomes a conundrum.\\xa0 Add into it the money-factor, that is, the desire of gun and gun-related manufacturers to not spoil a healthy market, and politicians that are supported by gun lobbies like the NRA the issue begins to take on the polarizing and paralyzing aspect that it has had for the past 40 years.\\xa0 \\xa0

Finally, the idea of what was meant by the second amendment becomes an issue unto itself.\\xa0 Were the founding fathers trying to make sure we all had guns?\\xa0 Was it something that was more in step with the late 18th century United States?\\xa0 Is it an amendment that, like the third amendment that doesn't make a lot of sense in modern America?\\xa0

We attempt not to take sides on issues, but look at the issues themselves that leave us with a Gunundrum on Strung Out.\\xa0

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