Yeah, let's arrest all the really bright ones: Sam Colt, Smith & Wesson, B. Tyler Henry and Oliver Winchester, John Browning, Hiram Maxim, Pietro Beretta -- let's include old Elmer Keith, too, the father of the .44 Magnum. And while we're rounding up the folks who invented things that have been used to harm people, let's not forget Alfred Nobel (he invented dynamite, remember?) and John von Neumann ("It has been stated that von Neumann's electronic computer hastened the hydrogen bomb explosion on November 1, 1952," says his short Academy of Sciences biography by Salomon Bochner). After all, shouldn't we get rid of everything dangerous?

Fortunately for the folks mentioned above, they lived in a far more sane era, and they're now all dead. And Kalashnikov? You might have a hard time extraditing him from Russia; he was recently honored there in a public ceremony.

The people who want to get rid of everything dangerous should start with themselves.

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