Sense and Nonsense
The Senate finally approved an exemption for gun manufacturers that frees them from liability when someone misuses their product. Makes a lot of sense and it’s long overdue.
The nonsense is that we still have no practical control over guns in this country.
Scenario: 260 residents of Smalltown, U.S.A convene their annual Town Meeting. There's a great turnout, all of them there because they each and every one of them honor and believe in the democratic process and it’s stood Smalltown in good stead since the Revolutionary War.
This year the docket includes a vote on gun control within the township. Among the citizenry are the normal percentage of hunters, skeet and target-shooters and folks who keep a pistol in the bedside table. Charlie Walker goes to Maine every fall to hunt moose, but that's just Charlie and so far he's not actually shot one.
It’s not about banning guns, it's about control and the control is only necessary because a gun shop opened on the south edge of town that sel…