Do you care as much about your children as owners care about their guns? That's an offensive question, isn't it.

Every time I suggest a project to counter the NRA, the response is immediate and enthusiastic: "Where do I send a check?" To which I've had to respond: I don't know. And now I do.

Well-meaning, generally thoughtful politicians are actually proposing -- with straight faces -- that we put $50 million towards transforming schools into gulags. And why? So that the grownups can be free to stockpile weapons against tyranny.

The NRA feeds its members on a steady diet of fear. "If we give an inch, then we're on that infernal toboggan to the hell where all guns are banned." Hence? Give nothing.

John Wilkes Booth saw himself as ridding the nation of a tyrant, but the nation mostly saw him as the treasonous assassin of their elected leader. See how this works? It's all a matter of perspective, isn't it.