I was at the book store the other-day, when a book about the future of guns caught my eye. I don't remember the title, but I remember it promising an unbiased look about the future of guns. Opening the dust jacket to read the summary, I barely got two sentences in before I realized it was just another gun-totting, bible thumping conservative piece of propaganda designed to scare rather than to inform, and I can't help but think really, are guns really so important that any attempt to control them is met with, to paraphrase Charlton Heston, the attitude of if want to control guns you want to get rids guns, and if you want to get rid of guns then you're taking them from my cold dead hands.
Yet there is nothing new under the sun. Politics of 19th century America were no less fractious. Not the least in clash between North and South in the Civil War, but even before that we Preston Brooks beating his fellow Senator Charles Summer on the floor of the senate, and even further back during the fateful year of 1804 the bitterness between two opposing politician came to head in the duel between Hamilton and Burr. So if fractious politics is nothing new, is possible to move past it. To actually come to some sort of compromise? I don't know, but I hope so.
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