By Jim Shepherd

Last week, California Senator Dianne Feinstein said that there would be no big moves to reinstitute the “Assault Weapons Ban” because the “time wasn’t right”. That, however, doesn’t mean the “assault on your weapons we want to ban” has died down on the liberal side of the question.

On Sunday April 12, CBS News’ Leslie Stahl delivered one of Sixty Minutes‘ vaunted hard-hitting journalistic pieces dealing with the fact that gun and ammo sales were booming. A longtime CBS stalwart, Stahl set her story at a Virginia gun show where a variety of gunshow attendees were seen buying guns and ammo at a near frantic pace.

During that narrative, Stahl did a good job of explaining that all dealers making sales at gun shows had to submit to the same FBI background checks as any other federally-licensed firearms dealer. In fact, I found myself thinking that maybe Stahl’s longtime Boston media bias had finally diminished to the point she could be evenhanded on a topic that makes liberals blanch – firearms.

Apparently, it couldn’t.

By Ann Coulter

The rash of recent shooting incidents has led people who wouldn’t know an AK-47 from a paintball gun to issue demands for more restrictions on guns. To be sure, it’s hard to find any factor in these shootings that could be responsible — other than the gun.

So far, this year’s public multiple shootings were committed by:

— Richard Poplawski, 23, product of a broken family, expelled from high school and dishonorably discharged from the Marines, who killed three policemen in Pittsburgh.

— Former crack addict Jiverly Wong, 41, who told co-workers “America sucks” yet somehow was not offered a job as a speechwriter for Barack Obama, who blockaded his victims in a civic center in Binghamton, N.Y., and shot as many people as he could, before killing himself.

— Robert Stewart, 45, a three-time divorcee and high school dropout with “violent tendencies” — according to one of his ex-wives — who shot up the nursing home in Carthage, N.C., where his newly estranged wife worked.

— Lovelle Mixon, 26, a paroled felon, struggling to get his life back on track by pimping, who shot four cops in Oakland, Calif. — before eventually being shot himself.

— Twenty-eight-year-old Michael McLendon, child of divorce, living with his mother and boycotting family funerals because he hated his relatives, who killed 10 of those relatives and their neighbors in Samson, Ala.

It might make more sense to outlaw men than guns. Or divorce. Or crack. Or to prohibit felons from having guns. Except we already outlaw crack and felons owning guns and yet still, somehow, Wong got crack and Mixon got a gun.