“Sire, The Peasants Demand The Right To Bear Arms!”

So says the frantic-looking lackey to the sardonic, pint-sized king in a frame from the much-missed comic strip, “The Wizard of Id.”
The king, always deliciously arrogant, replies, “Then rip off their sleeves.”
I laughed and laughed when it ran over twenty years ago and have never forgotten it.
Here’s the full NY Times story of Antonin Scalia’s and the other conservative Supe’s latest great contribution to American jurisprudence, with a truly mind-boggling photograph of a pro-gun protester included. Can someone explain the logic of “If guns kill people, do pens misspell words?” Maybe it’s because I’m a bit down in the dumps today and the old mind isn’t particularly keen, but this just plain baffles me. I know someone out there can lay it out like an algebraic equation, a=guns a=pens, there’s an obvious analogy there, let me ’splain it to you. Please do.
Meanwhile, I’m […]