DAILY OKLAHOMAN EDITORIAL 
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The Law of Unintended Consequences often 
overrides liberal good intentions.  When welfare programs rewarded women for the number of babies they bore, the number of illegitimate births went up.  When the secular fundamentalists went after school prayers, students began praying spontaneously --as happened at the Maryland graduation ceremony this spring when nearly the entire student body and audience began saying the Lord's Prayer.

The Law of Unintended Consequences is now producing a surge of gun and ammunition sales, according to the Wall Street Journal.  Folks can't get guns fast enough, in order to beat a perceived federal crackdown on gun sales.    Meantime, operators staffing the phones at the National Rifle Association reportedly can't keep up with calls requesting new memberships.

So Bill Clinton's hysteria-fueled gun control measures will increase the number of guns in circulation, probably by millions of units.  NRA membership will likely reach record levels, giving the group more money and more power to fight ill-advised gun control efforts. 

While gun control is stimulating sales, God control is stimulating prayer.  There's a sort of divine justice in all this.  The Law of Unintended Consequences expresses itself in freedom.  Tell a teenager he can't pray and that's exactly what he'll want to do.  Tell a citizen he can't buy a certain gun after a certain date and he'll rush to beat the deadline. 

Thanks, liberals.  You're making our day.!!!