Palin, Bush and "Clinging To Guns"

A Vice-President who has never heard of the Bush Doctrine would be a bad thing because...?

Meanwhile, in the words of Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI), the purposes of the Second Amendment "include self-defense, hunting, sport, and some certainly would say, as would I, the protection of individual rights against a potentially despotic central government."

Private gun ownership is compulsory in Switzerland and practically impossible in Japan, both very peaceable and orderly countries (as well as still politically self-governing and culturally self-respecting ones) with, which is the point, very traditional and effective family and community structures, such as America, and indeed Britain (gun-sodden and knife-sodden entirely regardless of the law), used to have.

Just as there is a pressing need to restore those structures, so there is also a pressing need to stop drugging teenagers up to their eyeballs, also a recent phenomenon.

Neither adolescent angst nor simple maleness in all its adolesecent hormonality is a medicable condition, and they should not be treated as such. Look what happens when they are.