A word in your ears, gentlemen:

I heard a self-professed member of the "Tea Party" say that he considered "packing heat" as an important part of the First Amendment in that if you have your Glock in your hand, the politicians pay a lot more attention to what you tell them you want them to do.

Frankly, I don't think I want the country I live in to be run that way. I seem to recall a little man with a postage stamp mustache and a penchant for wearing uniforms, with a bunch of shaved-headed goons in tow some decades back who operated pretty much the same way. Caused quite a ruckus in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

And God knows, a bunch of armed "Tea Party" members hardly constitute a "well-regulated militia." This sure as hell isn't what the Founding Fathers had in mind!

Don Firth