Rant of the Week: It’s Time To Belly Up To The Bar of Accountability

By David Lombardo

“What the hell was I thinking?” was my morning after-reaction to what I thought was a brilliant idea as I was drifting off to sleep the night before. The thought that keeps reoccurring is that I should be a liberal. Let’s face it, liberalism is the path of least resistance. No fuss, no muss, facts-be-damned, full speed ahead.

Take gun laws, for instance.

Someone with way too much time on their hands has figured out there are approximately 20,000 gun laws spread over the many levels of local, county, state and federal government. Admittedly, some are flat-out stupid, such as zero-tolerance for gun-shaped objects on school campuses. Eat a Pop Tart that some loonie-left teacher thinks resembles the shape of a gun, and you’re suspended from school. But many laws are dead serious, such as bans against specific firearms because they simply have a militaristic appearance.

Those laws control John Q. Public, the owners of about 325 million legally-possessed firearms; and its true, that’s one bodacious amount of guns in the United States. In fact, there are about 101 firearms per 100 U.S. citizens. The next closest country with a similar statistic is Serbia, with 58.2 guns per 100 residents. The point is, …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms