“The well-educated, homeschooling, breastfeeding mom at one of the Southern California homeschool park days that we attend, has summed me up as a libertarian. I use the small ‘l’ variety only because I’ve yet to register as an actual Libertarian: ‘I like what I’ve read about Libertarians,’ she told me, ‘but I have a problem with the gun thing.’ Uh-oh. ‘The gun thing’ is something that I thought I understood until I met my capital ‘l’ Libertarian husband over ten years ago. ‘Guns protect us from the government,’ he told me, which I thought at the time was a statement made only by anti-government freakish types. I now respect such supposed freakish types much more than I used to.” (05/02/08)