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freedom; the Constitution does  January 11, 2013|By Dan Turner
• Protesters in Denver this week hold signs making a familiar,
if absurd, argument: Guns guarantee freedom. Protesters in
Denver this week hold signs making a familiar, if absurd,… (Mark
Piscotty / AFP/Getty…)  "Happiness is a warm gun," wrote John
Lennon, 12 years before being gunned down in front of his New
York apartment building by a madman armed with a .38 special.
Lennon, of course, was being ironic, but there's no trace of
irony being exhibited by another group of Americans in love with
the power, beauty and mystique of their powder-heated death
tools: The sponsors of Gun Appreciation Day on Jan. 19.  Event
chairman Larry Ward warmed up the blogosphere Friday morning
when, during an appearance on CNN, he proclaimed that if all
African Americans had been included under the 2nd Amendment from
the beginning, it might have meant the end of slavery. It's
possible that Ward isn't as d