Chicago police: 3-year-old fatally shot by brother, 6

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68. Fantasies of justified

violent 'defensive gun use' seem to me to be the predominant motive for buying firearms, especially handguns. I'm reminded of the Muddy Waters lyric, 'I hope some screwball starts a fight', when I think of someone spending hundreds of dollars for a handgun, as if it were hundreds of lottery tickets. Fantasies of heroic 'DGU' are about as likely to come true as fantasies of lottery $millions.

Somebody has to deflate tens of millions of gun owner fantasies periodically to sate their appetites for more and more powerful weapons.

On 'Democracy Now' a day or two after the debate last week, a young Goucher College prof suggested that no one be permitted to have a firearm without first having been shot and wounded.

That was hyperbole, but how about taking a cue from anti-abortion legislation and making prospective firearm customers watch hours of videos of gun massacre aftermaths, with Sandy Hook as the first reel?