Laura's back!

I've got no problem with a difference of opinion, but I expect adults to speak from a place of logic.

"The gun carnage in America may soon overtake the maelstrom in Iraq. Every day, pop, pop, pop, and another victim is condemned to the nightmarish plague of handguns gone wild"

How can the gun-haters even take her seriously? She's like a parody of a gun control advocate.

"These days they are all pandering to the People of the Gun. "It's a beautiful day in paradise," chortled Fred Thompson recently as he paraded his law-and-order ministry through the aisles at the Land of the Sky Gun Show in South Carolina."

She must not be aware that she's inspired the website http://peopleofthegun.com/. OK, on with more of her hysterical nuttiness:

"You might recall that last year his house was raided by police, who reportedly found six guns and 500 rounds of ammunition -- with two young children present."

I get it already, Laura. You hate guns. But would you be ranting and raving like a loony on the back of a city bus if this guy had left his swimming pool uncovered with the kids around? Would we have to ban pools then? Please Ma'am, come up with a workable solution.

"A gun in the home is 22 times more likely to be used in an unintentional shooting than to injure or kill in self-defense, according to a 1998 study published in the Journal of Trauma, a medical journal."

That study has been discredited long ago. I'm almost expecting you to tell your readers that the Glock pistol is made of plastic and can be smuggled through a metal detector (another myth from like, 1978).

"I'm more worried about children getting hold of guns in the home than encounters with lead paint on Thomas the Tank Engine toys. Let's get real and get our priorities straight."

Explain to me why gun laws have never effectively reduced crime for any state, province or country. You may point out that pistol-free England has fewer murders per year than the U.S., but I'll remind you that England has had much more gun crime since they banned handguns. Never has the violent crime rate in the U.K. dipped below the pre-gun ban level. The Brits banned guns in order to feel safe, and their country has been less safe than ever.

What will Laura write about next?