Some photo fun today over at Illinois Review.

Question: Who holds the pencil, drives the car, lifts the spoon … and pulls the trigger? Is it some magic force? Perhaps invisible leprechauns or even fairies?

Or is it real, live people?

For a country that isn’t fighting a war inside its borders, didya ever wonder why America is home to the highest number of gun fatalities in the world? It’s because you and I can type in a URL and buy a gun and ammo over the ‘Net sight unseen, or head over to the local gun show and pick up whatever we want nigh scot free — essentially, because our gun laws are so liberal. Heaven forfend the gun industry not sell so much product. E gad.

Spelling bees and Rosie O’Donnell have nothing to do with it.

No one with any power wants to take guns away (as Bruno Behrend points out), but a lot of folks do wonder why there’s this obsession with being able to buy stuff for which the sole purpose is to kill things.

Guns don’t kill people. People shooting easy-to-get guns kill people. And it’d be a heckuva lot more difficult to kill people without it.