A Reporter Gets a Gun

Washington Post staff writer Christian Davenport goes through the laborious process of getting a gun in Washington D.C.:

It took $833.69, a total of 15 hours 50 minutes, four trips to the Metropolitan Police Department, two background checks, a set of fingerprints, a five-hour class and a 20-question multiple-choice exam.

Oh, and the votes of five Supreme Court justices. They're the ones who really made it possible for me, as a District resident, to own a handgun, a constitutional right as heavily debated and rigorously parsed as the freedoms of speech and religion.

Of course, the bad guys just ignore all that and go buy one on the street.