"All civil charms and priestly spells...., these like a dream dissolve, and man rebounds whole aeons back in nature."Herman Melville, 1863When a credibly hot-under-the-collar Piers Morgan told Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, on his CNN show, "You're an unbelievably stupid man, aren't you?", my first impulse was to gloat that, at last, the gun-lobby had gotten the big smack-down that it and its millions of credulous adherents deserve.