Bush, however, is a sensible fellow. Since there are 200 million guns already out there, I don't think that gun control is going to have much impact. But I think we ought to do it anyway just to make a statement as a society, and even if you save a couple of lives, then it's worth it. Whatever is being proposed is way too namby-pamby. I mean, for example, we're talking about limiting people to one gun purchase, or handgun purchase a month.
Nobody needs one.
The media today was created around that single story, a narrative that was followed day after day without a lot of questioning about whether it was really important or newsworthy. And so now that the Cold War is gone, you've seen disarray in virtually every institution in America, and no more disarray than in the media. We lost our story. I mean, in the city, guns, in my opinion, are seen as the tools of the criminal. But in many rural and suburban areas, guns are more part of the sporting culture.