And that's all I got to say....about that.

It would seem to me if people want to stand on their second amendment rights to "bear arms" then by all means, let us allow it, as our Forefathers suggested.

The Constitution says nothing about the right to bear ammunition.

And this isn't a new idea; I don't HAVE new ideas.

But if the guns are easy to get, assure that the ammunition ISN'T. 

Of course, it's not THAT hard to make your own ammunition; you need the tools, and you need the black powder.  The tools aren't hard to come by.

But I can damn well bet you that more red flags would be waved at somebody going into the store to buy several pounds of explosive gunpowder than there are from somebody going into the story to buy a gun.

Homeland Security doesn't give a crap if you buy a gun.

The DO care, very much, if you buy five pounds of black powder.

Unless we really want to stand by the spirit of the Second Amendment; which, as I recall from my History lessons, was written after a rag-tag army of militiamen beat the crap out of the British...back when you needed a gun to FEED your family, as well as protect them.  Back when the gun was the most important tool in the house.

We've moved past that, for the most part.

But I think it may be a good idea to go back to the halcyon days of FLINTLOCKS.

Three shots in a minute flintlocks.

Unrifled barrel-inaccurate at long distances-hard to load-hard to fire flintlocks.

Even crazy people would have to learn to use a ramrod.

And when they're using it, there's in ample opportunity to sneak up behind them and whack them with a tomahawk.

Which is another choice weapon of the 18th Century.

I don't want to punish the law abiding because of the sins of the crazy.  But I would like the law abiding to stand up and state what they suggest be done to keep the crazy from smearing the law abiding.  Surely they have an opinion, other than "It's in the Constitution."

Cuz Prohibition was in the Constitution, too.  And that was a truly ASININE idea.

See how I brought that around?

We think that prohibition of something will solve the problem, but it never really does.

Give 'em the guns.

Keep the ammunition.