David Codrea: Gun owners have vested interest in opposing U.S. Syrian intervention

But that could never happen here, though, right? After all, we’re 21st Century America. Aside from a few flukes now and then, that happen to other people in other cities and that the rest of us only see on TV, we’re immune to the forces of history, aren’t we? We’re the land where the livin’s so easy that the snack-fed masses can afford to have trivial interests and short attention spans, and to focus those on the current freak-tongued celebrity slattern du jour, with just a bit of room left over to accommodate Simon Cowell’s “love child”.