JMarinaccio,
I fail to see why you think Mr. Ellis is ranting. Unfortionately , he is pretty much right on the money. It is human nature, especially in America to blame things and circumstances rather than ourselves. Self Preservation and all. Why blame ourselves when we can blame other things and others and leave ourselves blameless. In the UK they have no weapons that the public can own and people are now using knifes more and more. It is so bad that they are banning them(knifes). They have erected metal scanners all over London and are confinscating them with the rest of the UK to follow. Next it will be cricket bats and who knows what else. Everyone tries to fix the visible systemic issues instead of the illness. But what else is new. So when someone tells you that if they ban this or that, it will take care of the problem, don't believe them. Prohibiting some else of their free will or right is the way of the ignorant and uninformed. Its always eaiser to tell someone what they can't do than enforce what is right. Just my opinion.
WD
P. S. Just re-read Ellis's post. Man he can rite more gooder than anyone I knowed. Betcha he done gone to some skool or sumpin.