Op-Ed: A gun owner's glossary for understanding politics and the press

By Peter Bronson

Packing heat: Dick Tracy phrase that is found in 90 percent of stories about gun owners, but never used in the real world since 1950.

Assault rifles: An ordinary semi-automatic that politicians and mediacrats want to outlaw if it looks like a military full automatic - although it doesn't fire any faster than a common semi-automatic .22 varmint gun.

Gun nut: Anyone who owns anything more powerful than a Daisy BB gun.

The First Amendment: Sacred wisdom in the Bill of Rights that protects the freedom of the press.

The Second Amendment: A mistake that should be deleted, according to newspaper editorials that are protected by the First Amendment.

District of Columbia vs. Heller: The Supreme Court case that is giving night sweats to gun-banners. If 110 pages of arguments in March are a guide, five or six justices will decide this month that the Second Amendment still guarantees the individual right to keep and bear arms. Even handguns. Even in the District of Columbia.

"What is reasonable about a total ban on possession?" Chief Justice John Roberts asked.

Good question.

Click here to read the entire op-ed, entitled "High court should shoot down handgun ban", in the Cincinnati Enquirer.