Sometimes, something I read frustrates me to a point where I can't fashion a rational response. This is an example. Not because I disagree with the point that gun ownership should not necessarily be illegal (yeah, try to find your way through the negatives) but because Bill Whittle's arguments are so specious, so fatuous, so pedantic and so, well, misguided. And, even more, because so many bloggers are fawning over this piece for reasons I can't begin to fathom.
So thank you, Judith, for saying it so much better than I could have.[T]he battle for a free tolerant society is won or lost way before the secret police show up at your front door to take away your armory.
Right. And all the other stuff she said, too.
Update: Haggai has offered some additional valuable insights on this topic. Meryl, too.
