The Gun Rabbi

In gun-ban Chicago, police have found a way to keep residents safe: give them whistles. Just think -- unlike a handgun, your whistle requires no licensing, no registration, no NICS check, and no training. On the other hand, knowing when to use it requires no brains and provides no protection to the user.

President Obama is from Chicago, and he was part of the gun confiscators. How about we give him a whistle and fire all those Secret Service bodyguards to reduce our budget deficit?

In a tragic incident, three innocents at the University of Alabama were murdered and several injured at the hands of a professor who was denied tenure at a faculty meeting. No down the gun nuts are going to jump on this as an opportunity to outlaw guns on campus -- after all, if there were more stringent gun restrictions on campus, three people would not have been murdered, right?

Wrong.

In Staten Island, they have zero tolerance for thinking or common sense.

A fourth-grader was suspended for possessing a toy gun in school... a Lego gun less then two inches long, standard issue for a Lego police man. While the child playing Police Man was suspended, the criminal suspect -- who was wielding a Lego ax -- was not charged with any violation of school policy.

We went away for a family vacation. On our return flight, they searched every carry-on and frisked every passenger at the gate. You gave your boarding pass, walked past the counter, and presented your bag for manual search. Next, before proceeding to the plane, there were two guards (male and female) who frisked everyone. The bags were searched publicly -- you knew that was coming before you gave your boarding pass. But the frisking happened behind a wall -- meaning that you didn't know you were going to be frisked until after you cleared the airline's counter area and the baggage check.

When I got to the "frisking station," the security guard told me to stand straight with my arms out to the sides, parallel to the floor. As I did so, he said, "I have to pat you down, OK?"

I said: "No."