The right to bear muskets

THE GUN CONTROL battle rages on, unabated. Civilized countries, like those in europe, have long since realized that having millions of people armed to the teeth is risky at best, downright dangerous at worst. They seem to understand that the world does not come neatly divided between good people, who should  be allowed to own guns, indeed should own guns for their own protection and the safety of all, and bad people, who should be prevented from owning guns by some mysterious process of screening.

They the civilized understand that the dermarcation between good and bad people is a fuzzy squiggly line which cuts right through the hearts and minds of us all.. Put a gun in a man's hands, said my wise grandfather, and the first thing he wants to do is use it. 

The arguments in favor of unlimited access to firearms by all the right people seem surrealistic, almost humorous, as would the fools who propound them, were they not in such deadly earnest.

According to mitch mac, he of the recently allegedly bugged office, to even so much as think about limiting access to deadly weapons would be a disaster of monumental proportions, depriving good people of a fundamantal right, destroying neighborhoods, families, and whole cities as surely as a blockbuster bomb.

Very well then. Let's stick strictly with original constitutional intent. Let's read the minds of our founders. Let no american citizen be denied the right to bear a muzzle loaded musket. Yet, according to our conservative histrionicists, to even suggest denying good people owndership of automatic assault weapons is to devastatingly attack the very foundations of the union.

the vice president said, profoundly, that most of the people who own guns today do so simply because they like guns. This drew ridicule from our conservative geniuses, even though the majority of american people are intelligent enough to understand that there is no reason on earth for anyone other than a member of the military to carry an M16. With people of such mentally on the loose, can it be long before the nation disintegrates in a flaming firefight? Or has it already done so?