Thursday was a Stupid Day

See why elections matter, Ralph Nader fans? See?! Because the Supreme Court gets 2 new arch-conservatives and the next thing you know there's no DC handgun ban. And gun nuts are running through the streets, firing into the air, and gettin' all likkered up and sheeeyit.

Look, the DC handgun ban was ineffective, not because it was a bad law, but because DC is surrounded by places like Virginia, where you can buy a gun while getting a haircut, and where teenagers can go to a gun store, pick out a gun with a saleman's help, and then go outside while their adult companion (not even parent!) buys the gun and then hands it to the kid, whose name appears nowhere in the transaction. Isn't that neat? Now the adult can say he has no idea what happened to the gun, and the undocumented teen can dispose of the gun however he wants. Of course, it would be easier to just buy a gun from a private individual, who isn't required to keep any record of the sale, thereby rendering the firearm just sold untraceable for all intents and purposes. Wow--the majesty of the 2nd Amendment!

That's not really fair, as it isn't the amendment's fault. This is a legislative problem. Republicans, as we all know, are the majority of gun nuts. They are also the biggest jerkoffs--I mean, proponents--when it comes to local gub'mint and state's rights. So, if people get the government they deserve, then it should be no problem to simply ramp up the penalties for gun violence and for negligence--if your kid kills himself with your gun, you go to prison. Why? Because it could have been me, or my kids, or my mother, or your mother who got shot. You are obviously incompetent to mix with normal, responsible society. So away you go.

That looks like the best we can do until the capricious morons who call themselves the conservative Justices die off. Or get shot by some crazed DC-area Republican. Could happen.