We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven t seen the British really coming by my house looking for it. And besides, the right to bear arms is not an absolute right anyway, as New York s Sullivan Law proves. We talk about ourselves as a violent society, and some of that is right and some of it is claptrap. But I think if you took away the guns, and I mean really take away the guns, not what Congress is doing now, you would see that violent society diminish considerably.
Reporters don t have a crystal ball, of course.
Even Joe McCarthy may have been on to something, but he was a crude and cruel man who ruined people s lives for 48-point type. When Bad People Spoil Good Things school of history.