So I got up this morning...

and turned on the tube, excuse me the telescreen. Another sports guy, coach Paterno, was telling me about guns and how this is not the Wild West. That the Second Amendment is out of date since the invention of self loading firearms (more than a century ago) and we should, in the words of Jeremiah the Bull-frog; "Throw away the guns and the bombs and the wars/ and make sweet love to...whomever."

So M and I went out to get breakfast, and there on the cover of the NY Post was a headline calling Wayne LaPierre a "Gun Nut" for calling for the deployment of armed guards at schools and other free fire, I mean gun free zones. After all we know that when seconds count the police are only minutes away.

But further back in the paper I found a classic case. An immigrant from Egypt, a guy who put in a sixty hour week at a bodega so he could go home with his US citizenship and marry his bride was on duty last night. Two huckleberries in hoodies came into the store, shot him in the face and emptied the register. Just a normal day in the neighborhood, especially if you live in Chicago, Philadelphia or Detroit

So I ask again, why do people who can afford, and probably have, armed guards want the rest of us to give up our God given right to self-defense? Because in the reality of this world it's always the Wild West, no matter what fantasy world Paterno, Costas and Blumberg live in.