A Few More Gun Thoughts

Guns are one of those great American topics like Abortion, Evolution, and Global Warming, where what we believe is the absolute truth and everyone else is just flat WRONG.  This, of course, makes it a lot of fun to talk about. Real munitions, like Metal Storm million-round-a-minute machine guns and A-Bombs, are not easily available to the average citizen. Fully automatic machine guns can’t be found at Wal-Mart.  Tanks and Aircraft Carriers aren’t for sale on eBay.  No private citizen owns a fully functional Black Bird or a Stealth Bomber.  What kind of panty waist Militia are we Americans putting…

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Gun Nuts and Just Plain Nuts

“An armed society is a polite society.” Robert A. Heinlein It doesn’t take a trained professional to look at photos of the Phoenix Shooter-a 22-year-old charged with trying to kill a congresswoman in a shooting spree that left six dead-to realize the man is mental unstable.  He has the stereotypical look of a madman, a nutcase, a loon, a man with a few screws loose, a nutjob, a nutter, a retard, a mental deficient, a crazy. But this is America, and there is no law against being crazy.  Where there are laws about insanity, they usually require that the insane…

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