While the Virginia General Assembly is panning the idea of a gun ban at the State Capitol, a spokesman for the Capitol Police is busy embarrassing himself.

"We're not trying to prohibit the legal carrying of any legal weapon," Maj. Jones said. "We're trying to know where the weapons are in the Capitol and to prohibit anyone who doesn't have the authority or the legal basis from bringing one in into the crowd."

In Virginia, every law-abiding citizen has the legal basis to carry a firearm. It's called the Virginia Constitution. Article 1, Section 13 quite clearly states:

That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state, therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.

But wait, the Major has more:

Maj. Jones said weapons can fire accidentally or can be left behind inadvertently. "We don't want a child finding one," he said. "That's kind of scary."

Scary indeed. Perhaps the Capitol police should also be disarmed, lest their sidearms spontaneously discharge all by themselves.