Toast Road Crews, Gun Control Is For Morons

We are ambivalent about snow.

It is really a love hate relationship.

It is nice to watch it fall, even fun to play in but on the other hand it is cold and wet and dangerous to drive in.

When we do not have to drive anywhere we have more affection for snow than animosity. It is the other way around when we have to take the road that day. Often we will delay or cancel business trips just to avoid driving in it.

We count ourselves lucky that we have that option.

But we count ourselves luckier still that we live in a place where our road crews fight the good fight every winter to keep our roads open.

Can anyone imagine how our life would be without these unsung heroes?

These men who on any given night or day must get up and get out in the worst possible weather to keep our roads and our economy going?

Other jobs my have more panache, more cachet but these men literally keep us alive and our businesses running smoothly.

So this New Years come snow or no, we will raise a glass and toast our road crews and wish them well and G-d’s speed.

The hinterland of central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and all those other -stands is not an area known for its manufacturing prowess or its inhabitants personal hygiene or education.

Indeed one would be hard pressed to find a more backward, ignorant and generally disgusting place and people.

Yet despite this sorry state of affairs this region does make something and we aren’t talking opium or child brides of both sexes.

Despite the fact the average resident has just a passing acquaintance with the written word, Central Asia produces a bumper crop of guns. Big guns, small guns, automatic, semi atomic, revolvers, you name it and on any street in any village, town or city in the area you can find it and find it pretty cheap.

One would think that manufacturing something as complicated as an AK-47 or even an Enfeild would demand a certain level of civilization beyond that of camel herding.

One would be wrong.

The gun smiths of central Asia do a bang up job of creating knock offs of some of the most deadly weapons known.

No they are not idiot savants, it is just that guns even the “complicated” assault rifle is pretty easy to make. Yes it took a while to invent, but once made any moron with a lathe can produce one.

And make no mistake most of the people in central Asia are morons.

If morons like this can reproduce enough guns for an army, surely our morons can do the same.

Thus is the rub about gun control.

Sure we can ban any weapon we have in mind to ban.

We can even confiscate every assault rifle or every fire arm in the country.

We won’t be able get rid of them.

They are so damned easy to reproduce anyone with pocket money will still be able to buy or make one.

The same is true for large magazines, silencers, even telescopic sights.

We aren’t talking rocket science here. On second thought given the simplicity of a RPG we are.

Gun control sounds nice but we would have as much luck trying to control gardening.

We would have better luck in limiting the number of nut jobs we allow on the streets.

That was something that did have success back before the 1970’s when our state asylums were mostly closed and thousands of lunatics were put on our streets to swell the ranks of the homeless and cause our murder and violent crime rate to skyrocket.