This blog will not be about religion- Christian or Muslim Fundamentalism, and how often extremist beliefs cause war and death. It will not be about politics, though it could be easily, and will somehow be misconstrued as such anyway. It will simply be about guns. And in an effort to clarify- not my desire to remove guns from all citizens, as my utopia would dictate I do, but the assault rifle and why protests against gun control are counterintuitive. In 2012, a young gunman walked into an elementary school, where small children were reading Harry Potter in a library, and singing America the Beautiful in music, and struggling through multiplication in math. Like Columbine, the young gunman was a white kid, pretty well off, and a little "misunderstood". In a short amount of time, he opened fire with a Bushmaster AR 15 Assault weapon and killed 20 kids and 6 grown ups. In the same amount of time it would take most of us to wash a sinkful of dishes, or put on our makeup, or driv