Guns Don't Kill, Idiots Do

So Wayne (“Bang! Bang!”) LaPierre of the National Rifle Association is mad at the U.N. because it is trying to do something about the worldwide trade in illegal small arms.

I’ll try to explain something to him carefully. I’ll do the best I can using the smallest words and sentences that I can so I don’t overtax his apparently minimal amount of brain power.

- This is a quote in the story from Prasad Kariyawasam, the conference chairman and U.N. ambassador from Sri Lanka: “The U.N. program of action covers only illegal trade, illegal trafficking and illegal brokering."

Smaller, right – yeah, I know…

- The flow of illegal guns is bad.
- Illegal guns can be used in wars or acts of terrorism apart from war.
- Sportsmen using guns legally have nothing to worry about from this.
- Lots of countries trade in guns illegally.
- The U.N. effort is not focused only on the U.S.

Despite that last statement, read this from The Guardian and wonder if any Kalashnikov machine guns were used by al Qaeda or other terrorists in Iraq against our military.

So, Wayne, instead of getting exercised at the U.N., why don’t you go get steamed at our government for profiting in the international illegal gun trade? Why don’t you try to drum up “thousands and thousands of letters from concerned members” about that instead?