Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Good Guys and Bad Guys

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a Washington D.C. gun ban. Because of the way George Dubya has stacked the court, Bodhi is guessing The Nine will come down in favor of the NRA gun nut lobby. It baffles Bodhi, really. The gun nuts always say gun laws restrict access for the "good guys," and that the "bad guys" always manage to get their hands on illegal guns anyway. Bodhi is here to announce that life is not a Western, with the good guys wearing white hats, and the bad guys wearing black ones. A "good guy" can own a gun that's not locked up, and his three-year-old can find it and blast himself or one of his little friends. Someone can look like a "good guy," working a job, having a family, with a gun rack and Nascar sticker on his car. But if his wife leaves him, he can use his legally-owned gun to kill her. Is he then a bad guy? Guns don't kill people. Bullets do.