In a bout of paranoid schizophrenia, Lionel Van Deerlin writes a cliche infested op-ed piece blasting the NRA for having the nerve to protect Second Amendment rights. What's funny is that about half way down, he shows that he knows as little about gun rights groups as he does civil rights.

In Northern Virginia, working behind its newly organized Citizen Defense League, the lobby is pressing for ordinances opening virtually every public place to concealed weaponry. Easily obtained permits would authorize armed entry to parks, libraries, shopping malls, county buildings - indeed, right up to the metal detectors at Reagan National Airport.

That is, of course, news to the Virginia Citizens Defense League, founded in 1994 as the Northern Virginia Citizens Defense League, who has been championing this effort independently of the NRA.