During my service in the U.S. Army, weapons and ammunition were much more tightly controlled. I never saw anyone walking into a PX with a rifle. After basic training, rifles were issued only for annual qualification and for guard duty. On guard duty, our rifles were locked in a rack when we weren’t on post. On those guard posts where ammunition was issued, we’d get five or ten rounds at the guard post, counted out by an NCO. Rounds were counted at each shift change, again by an NCO. Usually, guard duty was two hours on, four hours off, but on one memorable occasion, about a dozen of us spent the whole night in a vain search for a single round somehow lost by the bozo who walked my post just before me, supervised by a lieutenant and a couple of senior NCOs. I expect that the LT had to write a report about the whole silly incident, a bit of creative writing I wish I’d had a chance to see. The reason for all this, I suppose, is that in multi-cultural America, the government can’t even trust its own soldiers.

I’m ashamed to say it, but by and large the American people fear guns and see all gun-owners as potential criminals. Current policy is merely a reflection of this fear.

At least the girls can club him to death.