Guns Again: Against Guns

More campus shootings in the news. And a gun-dealer in Butler, Missouri, giving a gift certificate from a local gun-shop worth $450 to everybody who buys a new GM car from him. (And $450 is the price-tag at the gift-certificatre gun-shop for an
AK-47: to use at Yellowstone, I guess, or Grand Canyon. Or maybe just for a neighborhood drive-by, or at a school somewhere once classes start again.)

We are insistently crazy.

Maybe we should require that people carrying AK-47s, bazookas, machine-guns, howitzers, battleships, and nuclear missiles carry them only as "concealed weapons."

Maybe all members of Congress should be required to carry hand grenades, and mount 106 mm. recoil-less rifles on their desks in Washington.

Maybe Congress should give every American a $450 gift-certificate from his or her nearest neighborhood gun-shop.

Maybe American babies should all be born with guns.

Fifteen years ago, as a joke, I advertised in the "For Sale" column of the Louisville Courier-Journal: "Used Sherman Tank turrets, complete with their cannons. Suitable for mounting on Lincoln Town Cars. Offense for the Offensive." I received fourteen calls--and twelve of them sounded serious. The thirteenth laughed, and the fourteenth was angry that I didn't like Lincoln Town Cars.

If I placed that advertisement today, my phone would ring itself to death!