| Guns, Glorious Guns! Yesterday, a ban on the sale of assault weapons in the US expired.
That means that as a member of the public you can now buy an Uzi or an AK-47 on Main Street, USA.
Weird huh?
__________________ When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course. Let us imitate this prudence, and, before we float farther on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at least be able to conjecture where we now are. |