Thursday, November 11, 2010  We Live in a Free World, I Whittle
Down the Wind  While I'm on the subject of gun control, I
thought I might as well offer a few thoughts on the Bill Whittle
video that Kevin linked to as an indirect response to me the
other day. Incidentally, a word of advice - don't ever call Mr
Whittle "some random guy on YouTube" in the presence of the
KBFC. He is, I am indignantly assured, a Giant Among Men. Here
are just some of his pearls of wisdom -  "just because something
is fun and scares away weenies doesn't mean that it's stupid"
Clearly he's determined to appeal to our hearts as well as our
minds right from the off. Taking delight in scaring off
"weenies" with guns doesn't make someone stupid either, but it
probably does say quite a lot of other things about them.  "The
philosophical substrata for gun ownership is something that most
gun-owners understand in their bones"  As Paul Merton would say
- that's good!  "They don't need to be told any of what I'm
about to tell you because t