[Urbane Guerrilla]

Fortunately, the expansion of gun rights has been on a quiet steady march for about the last ten years; liberalized, shall-issue concealed carry of weapons (more briefly known as CCW in knowledgeable discussion) is now the rule in 38 states, sometimes after years of struggle in the state legislatures. The more comprehensive the gun rights, the better the fundamental condition sustaining a Republic is: that the electorate be the sole source of political power. An electorate with the mass power of life and death over its government staffers (and never forget that these too are of the electorate) is about as powerful as an electorate is likely to get.

For Paul and me, the gun-rights end of the matter is somewhat clouded by the fact that we live in the gun-iffy state of California. CA hasn't yet twigged, statewide, to the social advantages of liberalized good-guys CCW. The procrime/progenocide people -- the antigun ones, that is -- are and remain uninformed about the extremely, well-nigh universally, good results of liberalized, shall-issue CCW permit policies in 38 states, not one of whom has experienced the least problem from this population.