Atta Girl Stacey!

       I'd like to applaud Stacey Newman of Missouri for her common-sense approach to gun control. Ms. Newman is a state legislator, and while I don't usually consider state legislators to be any higher on the evolutionary scale than members of the U.S. Congress, I have to tip my hat to her. In other words, I think our form of government was designed by really smart people, but it's being run by idiots.
       Anyway, the reason I applaud Ms. Newman is because of her thoughtful and thought provoking bill to the state house of Missouri, that before anyone can purchase a firearm, they must go through a process designed like the process required for a woman to get an abortion. In Missouri, the law is very stringent on that subject. So, for instance, to buy a gun, you would have to meet with a licensed physician to discuss the risks of gun ownership at least 72 hours before purchasing a gun, buy the gun from a licensed dealer at least 120 miles from where you live, watch a 30 minute video on gun deaths and visit a hospital while victims of gun violence are being treated.
       And these are just for starters. There are a slew of additional requirements that would have to be met before you could buy that gun. Of course, as the Daily Kos article points out, the bill has no chance of becoming law in Missouri. But the thing is an abortion is a constitutionally protected medical procedure right just like gun ownership is a constitutionally protected right.
       When you look at it in that light, you have to begin to wonder if the constitution is being interpreted in completely different ways for different people, in which case you have to ask yourself if that's a constitutional approach to interpreting the constitution. I don't mean to turn this into any kind of tongue twister, but it seems to me that guns are far more dangerous to far more people than abortions are.