Guest Commentator

Tom Hall

BC Guest Commentator Tom Hall is a family lawyer in West Los Angeles. He is from Boston, and was raised in Friends Meeting at Cambridge (Quakers) to think that religion was a progressive force. During the Vietnam War, he organized draft counseling centers and worked with groups training people in techniques for disciplined nonviolent demonstrating. After the war, he became just another yuppie working to make a comfortable life. The Bush administration shocked him back into social concerns. Tom can be reached at [email protected].

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Gun Violence: What’s Really Behind “Right To Keep and Bear?”

By Tom Hall Guest Commentator

The reality is that our current stance on the 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with the views of the Founding Fathers and everything to do with the desire to keep the middle and lower classes fighting and killing each other, while leaving a small wealthy elite in control.

If the people who suffer from gun violence were the same as the people who profit from gun violence, gun control measures would be strong and…

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