Milwaukee Public Radio: It’s Easy to Get a Gun
A Milwaukee Public Radio’s (MPR) report on June 3rd, 2008 focused on the illegal gun trade.
MPR interviewed WAVE Executive Director Jeri Bonavia who stated:
Jeri Bonavia agrees that young people who rely on handguns for safety or validation or obtaining money, need to learn a different way of living. She’s executive director of the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort. It recently organized a public display of confiscated guns that had been painted to look like toys. Bonavia wants the state to change its law regarding gun sales so that all would have to be completed by licensed dealer.
“To cut off this easy access of guns to kids when they’re getting them from outside their home, when they’re getting them from friends on the street or acquaintances. And right now, there is this enormous loophole. We need to require a background check, require that people show identification to prove their age”, Bonavia says.
Bonavia says Milwaukee will see a change in its children as soon as the adult community makes clear by word and example that guns don’t solve problems and can come with an enormous cost: the loss of a young life.