Lake Guntersville gunslinging

Blount County still wants to use Lake Guntersville as a long-term water source for a booming population. Marshall County still wants Blount County to take its drinking straw away from the lake and go home. Jefferson County still has a monopoly over Inland Lake, the largest reservoir in Blount County, and still threatens to dam up the Locust Fork River in its northern neighbor.

In other words, the water situation in north Alabama is all a big mess, and that much hasn't changed. But Marshall County Commission Chairman Billy Cannon stepped up the rhetoric to new levels in a story published in today's Birmingham News: "You think it was rough in the Wild West over water. You come in here and try to tap us ... you're going to have a problem."

Gentlemen, isn't there an answer that doesn't involve Winchesters?