When in doubt, you can always shoot the diarrhea bug with a gun. Postal Service rules against shipping guns through the mail, together with the requirement to conduct an in-person background check when someone buys a gun. You can picture it now: you wake up on a Saturday morning, stumble into your slippers, and check the mailbox. Today, we’ve got diarrhea in every pot and firearms on every doorstep, or soon will. The United States is in bad shape, precisely because we’ve elevated free markets and business interests and dismantled the state.