I don’t know… I think it signals that I think we’re facing an intractable situation, and picking on McArdle just makes you feel better rather than facing the bad situation.

In seriousness, I think people don’t want to re-address the Second, because they know how politically challenging that is. But to change the “gun culture” of the U.S., that may be neccessary. Otherwise, let’s deal with the fact we live in a society with hundreds of millions of firearms. What practical thing can we do about that quickly?