NPR August 1, 2009
For years, Mexican drug traffickers have used gun stores and gun shows in the U.S. as their weapons supermarkets. The world's most murderous drug mafias operate on a border with a country that has the most permissive gun laws in the developed world.

US public overwhelmingly complains of drug pushers from Mexico. Yet, a substantial number of Americans are up in arms against stricter regulatory scrutiny over gun and ammo sales which find their way to the Mexican mafia, Why this paradox? As The Provocative Qur'an explains:

"A paradox in not intrinsically unfair or unhealthy; it exists to teach us valuable lessons. Our individual lives are a paradox: Despite the gift of reason, we shoot ourselves in the vital organs all the time. Our communities are a paradox: We teach children to be drug-free yet perpetuate a culture built on drugs. As I pointed out earlier, the story of all religions and moral codes is a paradox. The time has come to make the paradox wake us up and to ask, seek and knock at the door of self-improvement.

[Mat 7:7] Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you".

The Gun Paradox should be an incentive for each of us to ask ourselves: What are our priorities? How do we reconcile them? The Provocative Qur'an provides exciting illustrations which will not only help us solve the Mexican Mafia problem in a more pragmatic fashion but also save our most vulnerable youngsters from the horrors of drugs.