4/18/2007 9:23:56 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time

Hi Kent,

Alas, I find myself agreeing with you.  I noted CNN's coverage, rather than focusing on the gunman and looking into how he became a mass murderer, dwelt upon the "easy availability" of the Beretta 9mm semiautomatic pistols that he used in his murder spree and the likewise "easy availability" of the ammo for same.  The insanity of this is once again in blaming the gun and not the shooter.  That's been the party line in the news media ever since this took place.

Of course, all of the airheads in the media, CNN foremost, seem to forget the signal fact that after Australia and Great Britain banned guns completely gun-involved crimes went up in both countries, to the embarrassment of both governments, substantiating the old cliche of Second Amendment advocates that "if guns are criminalized, only criminals will have guns."  While I find it odd to be on the side of right wing whackos, I totally agree with them as to the Second Amendment:  it was not referring to militias, but, rather to the right of every American to bear arms as the hallmark of free society, always possessing the means to overthrow an unrighteous government.  The Bush Administration is a tyranny that richly deserves to be overthrown by any means that fall to hand, including the arms guaranteed by the Second Amendment.  In fact, in my opinion, there can be no constitutional ban on the possession of any firearm of any kind, no matter how lethal.  This is the only way that we can keep the government honest, the necessity for which is most recently demonstrated by the wholesale depredations against the Constitution and the rule of law by the Bush Administration.