On Modern Musketry
Posted By: NoisyRoom      12/29/2012 9:36:38 PM
NoisyRoom, by Citizen Scribe
Original Article

Accentuated by the recent heinous events at Sandy Hook, I have lately heard an increase in the never-really-absent mantra of “ban them, ban them, ban them all,” where the “them” referred to is a poorly defined item with a politically made up name which capitalizes on a semantic nuance of the poor (or at least marginal) translation of a German word, co-opted into a bogeyman term used to frighten some, shame others, and generally interdict rationality and reason so that emotion reigns, while logic lies wounded at its feet. The Sandy Hook incident was a gut punch for many, some of