The American West was won by the industrial revolution: steamships bringing European refugees, steamboats inserting people and removing commodities from the heart of the continent, railroads uniting the continent, and guns.  Guns were handheld-small, but they wiped out the buffalo so that the starving original population could be subdued, confined and mostly eliminated. ...

As the Washington Wizards move ahead, you can’t help but look back into the near past on star guard Gilbert Arenas’ road to a gun felony. Arenas, born in Tampa, Florida, had a mother who was a drug addict and was raised by his father. Arenas was drafted as the 31st pick in the 2001 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors before signing with the Washington Wizards by...