I read something interesting in the paper the other day. At the time of the writing of the Constitution, a really crack shot with a musket could get off two rounds per minute. Hard to imagine the forefathers had the foresight to envision and include the rapid, multi-kills-in-a-mniute of semi-automatic and automatic weapons.

MTed, if you are talking about me, I don't hide anything that I have written, op/eds or otherwise and I am not an editor. I have never written on Chechnya because I do not feel qualified. I do not know enough about it. I include my op/ed pieces here, from time to time, because people ask or they are on topic.

I was raised like Caits, with guns and a healthy respect for their fatal capacity; sadly, it seems, the majority are not being raised that way today and the issue of gun owners controling their guns is a good one. Personally, I would prefer none, as Mooh has stated.

kat