Cooper may simply be reaching for a very specific corollary of Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crud), but I disagree with him anyway. When criminals die, I don't mourn. But too many innocents die in inner-city gunfights to be as sanguine as Cooper seems to be. Nuge is great when he hunts and plays, and very funny when he ridicules animal rights activists, but he's just silly on apartheid and homosexuality. Laugh at Hammer if you wish, but she is absolutely right; governments have done precisely that (banning and confiscation) in the past. Disarming the populace is a sine qua non of tyranny.