"Now we'll have the NRA saying that if the two year old had a gun she'd be alive today."

I think you nailed it there Don. Wayne LaPierre needs to go. His spiel is doing more harm than good to gun owners and non-gun owners alike.

Guns would have aided in that situation in Boston? Really? I'm sorry Wayne, but that's crazy talk.

I am not a gun owner. They never interested me. Never held one. Just the same, I am inclined to respect both camps. But I would make a bold distinction between responsible and irresponsible gun ownership.

If I were the DA, I would have charged the parents with endangering the welfare of a child. In a jury of their peers, they might be acquitted, just the same, I'd make them as uncomfortable as possible. I would put parents on notice that I expect them to be responsible for what happens with firearms in the hands of their children when they are the ones providing access.

And you're right Jim. Revolutions are, by their very nature "illegal." Revolutionaries are terrorists, insurgents, radicals, criminals and every other damned thing- unless they win.