Son Of A Gun by Jay Tea

With the Omaha mall massacre last week, the issue of guns and gun control has come up. I got into a minor disagreement with folks over at one liberal site, and terms such as "gun nuts," "turn everywhere in America into Tombstone," and "shootouts" were tossed around.

There is always an argument about how to best prevent massacres like that one and the Virginia Tech shootings. One side says it's because the guns are too prevalent, and we need to control them more; the other side says that the gun restrictions only disarm the law-abiding people and create safe hunting grounds for the criminals.

The arguments by the first side often escalate to hysteria. We're warned about shootouts in the streets, the violence in other parts of the world where a lot of people are armed, and allusions to the Old West are frequent.

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