Stephan:   The death peddlers  of the NRA -- I do not think it is possible to be a moral person and a member of the NRA -- have a new campaign, making it easy to sell silencers to civilians. That's right putting silencers on hand guns, and long guns. Why of course, that's just what we need. The American gun psychosis eats away at the country's social stability in so many ways. I recently talked with a friend who holds an endowed chair in political philosophy at a prestigious university in a state which now permits open carry on campus. We had lunch together and he told me that he was speaking about White supremacy to a third year class and, as he spoke he noticed one of his male students, whom he knew from his papers and questions in class to have leanings in the direction of White supremacy playing with something. Then when the boy moved he saw it was a handgun. He went home, he said to me, and told his wife, and she said, "It's time for you to retire. We've been married for 32 years and I'm not prepared to have you murdered in class by some redneck NRA Trumper."  After thinking about it for several days, he decided she was right.