The Cruelest Month.

4-21-07 SHORT HILLS: I guess I blabbed so much last time that I had nothing left to say. Sorry it has been over a week, dear reader.

Until the last three days, this has been the most dismal April I can remember. It was cold, wet—incredibly wet, windy, nasty and even cruel. Nature seemed to be on hold from the weather, but one could see that the buds were slightly bigger every few days and that the plants were trying. In the last 10 days the average temperature has gone from 40° to 60°.

We have in bloom, finally: packysandra, vinca minor, anemone, siberian squill, daffodils, forsythia, andromeda, spice bush, quince and saucer magnolia.

Doesn’t anybody think it is, at least, bizarre that a psychotic killer can buy guns and lethal ammunition without any difficulties or questions? Bullets and guns for all of us, many guns and cases of bullets in every home in the land must be the goal of the munitions industry and their lobby, the NRA, and all those dupes quoting the Constitution. You want the Constitution? The only guns allowed for citizen to bear should be restricted to what was available to the Framers—flintlocks!