To the water-carriers who have dutifully and reflexively resumed sending me e-mails urging me to “sign a petition” to ban assault rifles, let me urge a more direct legislative response to the crime of some people killing others. I know this alternative response will not serve the power and control ambitions of your masters, but it might get to the core of the problem. What about circulating a petition to get legislative bodies to make it unlawful for people to commit murder? If ending the killing of people is the problem you truly seek to address, this approach should be more to the point and, thus, more effective, don’t you think?

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