No joke. Got a call last week from an otherwise sentient person asking me if I was finally ready to give up MY guns and related civil liberty such as the right to ask mean questions like "when has banning a thing really solved a problem?". Because all these deaths apparently are due to my guns, under my control, 2000 miles away. I said "hold on a minute" and paused for 30 seconds then "I just checked, all my weapons are where they should be, none got up and made it's way to Texas or anyplace else to commit murder without me, so they're all good".

I have too many friends anyway.