What's a moderate to do? - I really want to be libertarian. A hands-on government is usually run by do-gooders who take us all to hell on their well-paved intentions. Yet I cringe when I read stories like this one, about activists who oppose Norfolk's ban on guns in city parks. (The accompanying photo - showing a pistol-packing papa with pompadour addressing city council - is priceless.) "Second Amendment rights," like anything else, can go too far. Reasonable accomodation has to be made with people of opposing views - and that means imposing some sanity on the freedom to bear arms. Libertarianism is a nice concept on paper, it can even be a good guiding principle, but mindless adherence to its ideology is no way to run a country. Paging Mr. Heston...
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