More things that make this look too much like a real blog.

Land of the brave, home of the free. The country where it is fine to own guns, but writing fiction is a criminal offense.

I'm reminded of the story (told by James, I think), of the town where a gang of kids started squirting another gang with water pistols. The other gang took against this, so they came back with guns and started shooting the first group. In a considered response to this, the local authorities decided that the solution to the problem was to ban water pistols.

[Put like this, it sounds rather too much like a "hmm, it makes you think" style thought for the day, but I suppose if I had added that the town was in America, then it would have all made sense].