When is a gun not a gun?

[Hoyt]

1. I agree. Where I live, you can't carry a sword or a collapsing baton, but one can tote a gun

on city streets. That is insane.

If guns were not primarily lethal weapons, there would be few shooting ranges, gun stores, gun shows, yahoos toting/accumulating them, manufacturers pandering to yahoos' baser instincts, etc. Guns as pure entertainment -- totally detached from their capability to wound, kill, intimidate, blow things up, etc. -- would be almost nil.

Folks would rather throw darts. Can you imagine a National Dart Association with Ted Nugent, John Bolton, Ollie North, Grover Norquist, Wayne LaPierre, Big Jim Porter, major dart manufacturer representatives in leadership positions and practically owning Congress?

I think someday, the Supreme Court will revisit the 2nd Amendment and find along the lines of the Dissent in Heller. Maybe something similar to Australia's 1996 tough gun laws is on the horizon.