Governments like the Nazis and the new U.S. Menace start by having everyone REGISTER their arms and then go around taking them away. Of course, many people do not declare them, but then that becomes a CRIMINAL offense if one has to use them - no longer recognized as a natural right. Occasionally, some nut shoots several people - perhaps if more citizens wore arms as was previously the custom, they could take them out and shoot the criminal - same on an airplane. At least the pilots should have guns. If citizens are desarmed, only private criminals and government ones have arms. An individual must defend himself with a stick of wood or a ball bat if one is around.

As a matter of fact, the shooting yesterday actually showed the horror of D.C.’s system of gun control. Because guess what all the tourists at the museum were doing. You know — the people who were visiting from around the country, including families with children. They were hiding on the floor, cowering in fear that their lives were about to be snuffed out by the shooter because they didn’t have the means to defend themselves because they, unlike the would-be murderer, were obeying D.C.’s gun-control law. D.C.’s gun-control laws disarmed them, not the guy who was threatening to murder them and their families with a gun.

2. Shooting firearms contributes to global warming.

4. Requiring the use of child safety locks for all guns will force gang members to use them when driving around town with guns.

5. The foreheads of all gun owners should be micro stamped for easy identification.

As the Mumbai horror once again reminds us, gun-control laws are a disaster. They have no effect on murderers and terrorists. They do not prevent murderers and terrorists from acquiring weapons. They succeed in disarming innocent people, thereby preventing them from defending themselves from murderers and terrorists. And by the time the police get around to ending the threat, lots of innocent people have already died.

Even turning the country into a police state, with powers of random stop and search and scanners in public places, will do nothing to disarm these creatures. Such laws will only inconvenience the respectable. They subject us to the indignity of being searched by police officers who are increasingly useless and corrupt. They disarm us to the point where criminals can roam among us like foxes among chickens.