The Scalito Court's bottom fishing with the "individualist right to a
gun" just before the peak oil + China depression is a lot like feeding
big hungry gators from the back of a pickup truck . . . . and then
getting into the back of the truck.  Gators might find the distinction
between dead chickens and live humans a bit irrelevant.

Food is food.

Gun nuts were never noted for clear thinking when times were easy.  In
the next half dozen years when the rich consume almost all of
America's rapidly shrinking slice of the world petroleum pie, most
Americans including almost all nutters will be trying to live on a
tiny fraction of their current oil consumption.

The ability to make distinctions can only be expected to get worse.

The distinction between a DC black and some white person still
cruising around in a SUV might not seem too relevant anymore.  As an
additional bonus they can also lower the nation's carbon footprint.

Throwing food to gators and then hanging around is always a mistake.

Bret Cahill