Dennis Latham: Life, Fiction, and the Pursuit of Madness

As soon as I find the missing manuscript, I'll write some more on the tales of Guilford. But until then, a Guilford Santa may be coming your way. From my King of Guilford...or is it fiction? Hire a Guilford Santa This Year...or maybe not.

This picture makes about as much sense as the logic behind this story. Give Us Your Muskets Last Night on Fox News I saw a guy who represented some anti-gun group led by Gabby Gifford. They want to ban muzzle-loaders as weapons of mass destruction. They claim that equipping a muzzle-loader with a silencer will make someone able to become a mass shooter. They don't care that a silencer does not completely muffle a gunshot or doesn't make sense to put a silencer on a powder flintlock. They don't care that it is a single shot cap and ball weapon. They don't care or understand that it takes at least a minute or two between each shot to rig a muzzle-loader to fire again, making it the least likely to be a weapon of any kind of mass destruction. All they care about is trying to regulate the deadly muzzle-loader because it fires a .50 caliber ball. Next they will ban any mention of the Revolutionary War in schools as evil because of muskets. I can see it no...