A sign of the mayhem ahead if the U.S. Supreme Court issues a ruling that sweeps away the right of states to enact gun control can be found in Kansas.

According to a March 21st Editorial in the Topeka Capitol-Journal:

What this state needs is more fully automatic weapons on our city streets.

We’re being sarcastic, but the idea had the support of enough legislators to merit a hearing last week in the House Federal and State Affairs Committee on a bill that would allow manufacturers and dealers to sell the weapons to private citizens.

But without the right of states to prohibit such sales, we would be – hypothetically – returning to the days of Al Capone style shootouts with automatic weapons. This would not just be devastating to citizens; it would severely increase the risks to our police officers.

As the Capitol-Journal editorializes:

Sounds impressive, but law enforcement officers and all us innocent civilians would be safer if legislators do everything they can to ensure the “multiple dangerous targets” don’t have the ability to return “suppressed, accurate, rapid fire.”

Rep. Ann Mah, D-Topeka, offered a voice of reason when she wondered aloud why the committee couldn’t tinker with the bill enough to allow legitimate manufacturers, dealers and importers to sell the weapons to law enforcement agencies while prohibiting sales to private citizens.

We hope her colleagues were listening.

The potential availability of machine guns to just about any American is not a Constitutionally guaranteed right; it’s a recipe for carnage on a scale that we have yet to see.

Just look at what’s happening in Kansas and hope that the Supreme Court applies some common sense when it comes to our Constitutional right to be protected from gun madness.