Musings: Turning a thought around

One of the perennial arguments in the gun-control debate is pro-gun-control demagogues saying that guns should be licensed just like cars, expecting their listeners to have never thought abut how the two actually compare and thus convince people that still more gun laws are a good idea.  Gun owners naturally turn around and point out embarrassing things such as, if guns were licensed just like cars are:

• anyone could own as many guns, of whatever type, as they could afford;
• Shooter's Ed would be a mandatory class in high school (which, actually, wouldn't be a bad idea);
• Not only would automatic weapons be readily available, they'd be the default, and manually operated actions such as bolt or lever actions would be uncommon;
• You could legally take your gun with you to any public place with no special permit required beyond your license, and people wouldn't look funny at you for doing so;
• ...

Well, you get the idea.  However, it occurred to me this morning to turn the argument around.  Let's look at the other side of it.

( What if cars were controlled just like guns now are? )

Things that suck

My left little toe has been extremely painful again for several days now.  I've been unable to keep a shoe on for more than a few minutes at a time today.  The distal phalanx^[1] of the toe, no longer rigidly attached to the medial phalanx^[2] since the last surgery (which removed some bone in efforts to reduce the pain from that toe), is pulling sideways off the end of the toe towards my other toes, while the medial phalanx is increasingly pointing outward away from the rest of the foot.

I have a feeling I'm going to have no choice but to have that toe amputated altogether.  It's not contributing anything to my balance, and it's harming my mobility overall because of the pain.  It even keeps me awake at night if I lie on that side.

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[1]  That's "the end bone of the toe."

[2]  That's right, the next bone, "the middle toe-bone" ....