points to small nails to pebbles. San Quentin guards reportedly confiscated an average of 20 to 25 weapons a month, according to the official quoted by the Examiner. This prisoner arms-manufacturing industry obviously reflects an increasing awareness among criminals as to how to circumvent restrictions on access to arms. In our prisons, these activities are especially ironic, since guards patrolling inside usually are unarmed. Putting the concept of easy access to firearms in a prison environment into perspective, retired federal probation and parole officer Wallace Richard Croup said, "You'd think a prison would be the safest place on earth and a model for gun control. If you thought that, you'd be 100percent wrong, and, if you were inside and thought that, you would be dead." That challenging truth should give you far more than philosophical awareness to the prospect of an in-prison shotgun marriage, or divorce, with Bubba Ray.