There's a story in today's New York Times that just makes us cats want to scream.
Seems that in the wake of last month's assassination attempt on Representative Gabrielle Giffords, members of Congress are trying to figure out how to remain accessible to their constituents — and safe at the same time.
What should they do? Accept police protection during public events? Ride in cars instead of walking in parades? Change constituent meetings to more secure, if less friendly, venues? These poor elected officials are just struggling, struggling, struggling to come up the solution.
Well, duh, people. The answer is right in front of you.
Get rid of the guns.
It's so easy. If a member of Congress knows that the constituents he or she is meeting with are not armed, they'll have a lot less to worry about. We can all go about our business and maybe even have a few civilized conversations (that is, if there are no teabaggers around).
But, no. Thanks to politicians' extreme cowardice in the face of the NRA uber-lobby, any effort to restrict gun availability, to close sales and registration loopholes — or just keep high-powered ammunition out of the hands of Jared Loughner — is doomed to legislative failure.
We cats are disgusted and amazed. To the Founders, we say: You guys were pretty smart, but you have no idea what havoc you wreaked on this country with that stupid Second Amendment. And to Congress? Well, as the saying goes, if we cats were any closer to you, we'd bite you.
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