It's still illegal, I would point out, even though these gunmen did it. And that, as they say, is a Good Thing. If the government were to provide license to kill Clowns, the threads of the Mudcat, just for starters, would be running with gore. Not to mention the streets of Washington, which would be running with Gore, Cheny, Bush, Rover, H and B CLinton and the precious bodily fluids of several thousand other clowns who like to prance around that part of the world.