I recently heard a politician declare himself to be in a “war on guns.”  He did not say if he thought his war is subject to the Geneva Conventions.

The politician said that the current gun-ban effort is a reaction to the Newtown murders. But his ban is not aimed at the murderer or at criminals or at people with drug-affected mental problems. It is, instead, a reprisal against law-abiding Americans in order to infringe their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.