I’ve seen several Facebook arguments about gun control in which someone posits that we may end up living in some sort of Hunger Games-style dystopian future, and that I would want a gun so that I could become some sort of tragic symbol of the revolution by being totally obliterated while shooting (plink, plink, plink) at a tank.

No question that in this sort of movie-plot dystopia that there would be a breakdown of distribution services (unless the self-driving trucks were all on our side and continued to provide effective logistics solutions to the masses). Reliable access to food might be a problem. But I live in a city neighborhood, and I haven’t seen a deer or a wild sheep around here, so I’d probably be better off trapping rats than trying to shoot large game. There are a lot of rabbits around the office. I remember that scence from Roger and Me where the woman was raising rabbits for food. A long time ago Dziadek had a pigeon coop in his backyard (yes, for food).

But have they been watching the news for the past twenty years? Have they seen what has been causing trouble for our military in Iraq, Afghanistan, wherever else the situation is stagnating due to an uncooperative local population? Lots of remote-controlled homemade bombs. In some sort of hypothetical future dystopia, I’d much rather have bombs than any gun currently on the market.