Gun nuts live in such a juvenile fantasy world, one constructed of bits and pieces of all the preposterous Hollywood action movies of the past 30 years. Everyone knows, and the statistics show, that every successful use of a personal firearm for self defense is undone by at least an equal number of cases where guns were used by their owners, or someone living with the owners, to commit suicide, or instead were stolen from their owners and used to commit crimes somewhere else. It's just a stupid argument.

As an example, let's take the Supreme Court itself. In keeping with the spirit of this decision, guns should be permitted on the Court's grounds and in its innermost chambers. For this ruling to make any sense at all from a public safety standpoint, the solution to any concerns about the safety of the justices should be addressed simply by arming the justices themselves.

From what we've heard in the past few instances of gun-mediated mass murder, such as those at Virginia Tech, anyone who becomes the victim of gun violence is just a coward and a wimp who should have been packing heat. If they had a gun on their person, it's automatically assumed that everything would have turned out okay. So by that reasoning, let Justice Scalia look out for his own safety. If he's not quick enough on the draw to keep some deranged shooter from plugging him, then it's his own fault.