I've always wanted to be a cop. My dad has recently joined the police force and has worked with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement as well as the DOT. I've always tried to hold a good view of police, but stories like this make me shudder. I admit, this isn't both sides of the story and I'm taking what this story says at face value. But it is sickening nonetheless.

How long must we constantly bicker over the language of what makes a gun scary looking or too dangerous? If you hit someone with a frozen tuna, you have turned a meal into an assault-fish. A magazine with 15 rounds is no more deadly than one with 10 in the hands of someone with good aim. Having a gun loaded, in your own car, does not cause you to spontaneously shoot people who cut you off or rob liquor stores.

Why not spend the energy that goes into making draconian gun laws into something more constructive for America? Why spend so much time preventing law abiding citizens from protecting themselves knowing damn well that criminals won't follow the laws in the first place?

I have always felt that America is an impregnable fortress. No outside force can take us down. But the castle has a weakness from the inside, and sometimes it feels like the king is getting his ass kicked by the court jester.

(H/T Michelle Malkin)