No Second Amendment.

I am and have been a supporter of the gun registry but now I'm not so sure, not when ownership of a two-bit little bird gun – legally acquired, lawfully used and stored in pieces in a trunk for the past 30 years – is sufficient reason for three cops to come to my door and snatch it, after threatening me with a search warrant.

Look, I registered the damn thing. I simply neglected to renew. A sin of omission?

Send in the troops.

Just like those of us "clingers" who insist that registration of guns provides the means for ultimate confiscation of guns, that is exactly what happened to this columnist.

As for me, I'll stay with "shall not be infringed."