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I'm starting to get puzzled. Athlete after hip-hop star after athlete keep getting involved in "accidental" shootings. (Check out the latest goober's story here.) As a gun owner I'm confused. After all, there are a few common-sense rules, aside from state requirements, regarding firearms:

1. Keep them safe and safed
2. Don't take them where alcohol is served or when you might be impaired
3. Use them only when your life is in immediate lethal jeopardy
4. Be legal.

Apparently folks just don't want to read the rules. Or maybe think the rules don't apply to them as they've had more than two column inches in which their name is mentioned. It's idiotic, but there you are. My confusion lies in the punishment: does a public sports figure get a pass on the old NYC "one year minimum" for weapons possession? Are we going to continue to treat our bread and circuses stars better than the plebes that watch them?

I'm not sure. And that scares me almost as much. Not because I want punishment for everyone or anyone, but because justice needs to excoriate the guilty pandered to elite as much as the ignored working folks.

And simple homilies about the joy in abject power (qua violence) don't quite work.

You must, as my son put it, have "this many proteins to have an opinion."

Most, sadly, don't qualify.

So put those guns away, put on your dancing shoes, and get out and boogie. And let the professionals worry about your security, instead of giving your egotistical paranoia full reign.