Why Didn't They Think of That?

Lawrence Simon just might have come up with the best question of the year:

If liberals think it's a good idea to distribute clean needles to inner-city junkies and condoms to gays and lesbians at the bathhouses to prevent AIDS, why aren't they out distributing blanks to gun-owning inner-city morons to prevent innocent people getting killed from falling bullets?

Now why didn't they think of that?

UPDATE: (12/31/05) The Good Lieutenant counters with one just as thought-provoking:

If liberals are the mainstream of today's society (which they often claim to be when one mentions the election results of 2004), then aren't conservatives by definition the revolutionary new counter-culture?