http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/Dec-16-Sun-2001/opinion/17674003.html
Since Sept. 11, Michelle Cottle of The New Republic has quoted women on the street to the effect
that, “I think all women oughta carry a cell phone and a three-fifty-seven. Loaded.”

“After the terrorist attacks I’ve been rethinking gun possession,” wrote Mark L. Helm, an M.D. from
Steamboat Springs, Colo., in an Oct. 3 letter to the Wall Street Journal. “Long a staunch anti-gun
supporter, I’m preparing to buy a handgun and get the training necessary to legally conceal it. …
A few stories of thwarted terror attacks by armed citizens might change the mind-set of the lawless
who perpetrate such acts.”

Does anyone else sense a tidal shift in public consciousness, here?