Open Season in Bush World

Duck and cover, America. The U.S. Supreme Court is gunning for us.

In a 5-4 ruling this week, the Court held that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution conveys rights to individual citizens to arm themseves.

Do you feel safer now? I don't. In fact, it scares me ragged to think of millions of us out there packin' heat and suspiciously eyeing our friends, families, neighbors, rank strangers, or fresh acquaintances at the mall, on the bus, in the taxi, the airplane, the supermarket, or the subway. It's enough to make a person want to close the doors, pull the curtains and stay home forever.

But wait...there's also the recent home invasion a few miles from here to worry about. An elderly couple (he 91, she 76) were taken hostage at home at 7:15 a.m. when the gentleman stepped into the driveway to get the morning paper. Three men, all adults w/no claim at all to "young punks", demanded the couple's car keys and combo to the safe before tying up the couple and hauling off whichever loot they were after. Unless I missed it, no one displayed or fired a weapon. With the new Court ruling, however, it will be a lot easier for all of us to keep a rod handy to handle whichever further horrors await us in Bush World.

Please...can we get this crowd out of here fast enough? Unfortunately, Election Year 2000 was our first, last and best SHOT at it. Tragically, we missed.