Don't Worry; Only His Mouth Is Loaded.

A thousand words of irony. Or disgust. From nola.com comes this classic image of New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin and his trusty Police Chief Warren Riley - at a "public safety" press conference, no less - demonstrating how to safely handle some, um.... "assault weapons":


Image by: Eliot Kamenitz, The Times-Picayune

More here. It's usually big-city mayors and police chiefs, like the two above, who most loudly clamor for an "assault weapons ban." I'd agree - but only if it applied to elected officials and their flunkies.