Watching an old episode of "Marshall Dillon" in which an attempt to disarm Dodge resulted in a senseless killing by a drunken cowboy, reminds me of gunless Sheriff Taylor. It reminds me of Archie Bunker's rebuttal that if you took away a man's gun he'd kill some other way. Guns do make it easier. Disintegrators would make it very easy and clean, but all Cain needed was a rock.
The real solution is not taking the gun away from the gunman, but making this world more like Mayberry than Dodge, more like a home and less like a frontier. With the unrest in men's hearts, it's no wonder there's unrest in the Middle East and elsewhere. The wonder is when a man puts down his gun or his rock and becomes his brother's keeper.
Our new gun law allows concealed weapons to be carried as long as the carrier doesn't drink. That's was what led to Dillon's problem. He didn't arrest Miss Kitty.
No comments:
Post a Comment