Archive for April, 2008

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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Ordinarily, gun control is a subject I won’t touch. Arguments about gun control tend to quickly degenerate into spittle-flecked rants or did-didn’t-did-didn’t exchanges about statistics and causality. I get the feeling that anybody with a strong opinion on the subject, pro or con, has that opinion defined in their DNA, and no amount of argument would dislodge it. And yet, here we are with another spate of mass shootings and the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments about firearm restrictions in Washington D.C. I guess it’s time for me to disdain the blindfold, flick away my camel cigarettes, and face my fate.