If you don’t want to ruin the good mood of an excellent sunny warm Spring Friday, then move along and don’t click on this link.  I tend to stay away from posting about controversial stuff here, but the terrible shootings at Virginia Tech have flushed out the crazies and I can’t ignore this.

It’s part of a point-counterpoint piece on CNN about gun ownership in the US.   This is the pro-gun part, written by the dangerous moron Ted Nugent.  This piece does nothing to prove that his points are valid, but it does give me a little shiver thinking about what kind of world he wants to live in.  It seems that he is happiest imagining a hail of gunfire in almost every circumstance in life.  I particularly think the pictures they used are appropriate:  the left anti-gun writer is a former editor of the New York Times who looks like an intellectual (albeit a fairly eccentric one), while Ted is pictured in camo wearing a shit eating grin and shades.  You can just imagine him wiping the Budweiser suds from his lip with one hand with his smoking AK-47 balanced in his other.  It makes me feel somewhat better that he is the best the pro-gun lobby has and they have no moderate, educated voice.  The only part that makes me worry is maybe the pro-gun lobby picked him on purpose because he might be more appealing to their core members than a moderate intellectual.

Man, it’s really hard to not just shake you head and be darn glad that you live in Canada.  Does anybody really really need to carry a gun with them everywhere they go in the hopes of trading some hot lead with the next guy trying to cut you off on the Queensway?  I think that most Canadians (and hopefully most Americans) would answer No.