So how's that workin' for ya, Heyne?

"My wife and I, we never believed in guns," said Heyne, who has recovered physically from the three gunshot wounds he suffered. "We never bought our kids toy guns and made a point of talking to them about the danger. I never thought I would be someone who would go through this."

Who'da thunk it? Sticking your head in the sand doesn't make problems go away. Neither does "not believing" in something. Not believing in defending yourself will get you killed by someone who DOES believe in using violence to get what they want. You think this thug would've shot you and your wife up and went on to pistol-whip another woman to death if you had been carrying a firearm and had been trained to use it?

Astonishingly, that's not what Mr. Heyne advocates. The rest of the article is about a "pending measure in Congress called HR 5005 by Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, that would repeal provisions allowing law enforcement access to trace gun ownership. " Of course, the libs say this is a bad idea, because it "would take away the power of law enforcement to find out who owns a gun."

Anything that takes away police power and reserves it for law-abiding citizens is good, in my book.

"Weiss said under his proposal, gun owners would be held responsible if the weapon is later used in a crime."

I see. Are law enforcement officers so inept that they can't track down and punish the one who actually committed a crime and instead need to use a law-abiding citizen as a whipping boy?

Pathetic.