The author implies not only he thinks firearms are the mark of criminal activity, he expects everyone thinks the same way. This is not an isolated instance.

In every instance of fascist power grab, the fascists have submitted an ‘enemy’; usually an identifiable boogeyman. In 1920s and ’30s Germany, it was the Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and other ‘undesireables’; but let’s not dwell on the past.

I see the modern U. S. would be fascists are – have been – building up an ‘enemy’ against whom to unite (and surrender power to the fascists to fix things). The current boogeyman in the current United States seem to have three faces – not interchangable but with enough overlap to ‘unite’ against.

Smokers, gun owners and global warming deniers. And church goers, especially Christian.

Smokers jack up the price of healthcare and kill others with second hand smoke. Gotta be stopped.

Gun owners are just dangerous people with way too many ‘unregistered’ guns (the evilest sort) and are just itching to shoot someone. Anyone. Anytime. For any reason. Or no reason.

Global warming deniers. Those people are responsible for the high cost of gasoline, smog, drowning polar bears, droughts and hurricanes. They drive SUVs which don’t even have to stay on the paved road. (And they blaspheme Al Gore.)

Church goers. Well. They’re the ones who block sexual activities taught to grade school kids and want to instill some concept of morality and decency in youth. They’re so narrow minded about AIDS and unwed pregnancies and unwanted children and such.

And all these four groups have the audacity and politically incorrect inclination to dare think for themselves instead of the socialist glop promoted by the elite.

That’s why you hear about so many old Gatlings being used in drive-bys and food court massacrees.

(Coincidentally, that’s what has always puzzled me about the public freakout when they find out that you can own cannon. I personally can’t think of a firearm less suited to criminal misuse than a towed 105.)