That's a very good argument, Bill, very sane. But is it as good an argument as saying that no human being, on principle, should be walking the streets with a lethal weapon in his pocket? Think about it. If the police apprehend an alleged murderous or felonious villain, they must arrest him, charge him, remand him, send him for trial in front of a judge and jury. Yet we permit people, far less qualified than anyone in the police or justice system, to carry a lethal weapon that allows them to kill on the strength of a split-second decision that could be based on just about anything other than a measured judgement. I call that insane. When I think of the power of the gun lobby, the pro-Israel lobby, the evangelical lobby and the oil lobby in your country, I seethe when I hear anyone calling your country the land of the free or the bastion of democracy.