And by the way, to jump on Frank’s bandwagon: Having read and looked at the New York law, I don’t think it’s a good one, and I do think it was rushed. Every cop I know would, if they could, ban all the handguns in the US but wouldn’t really give a shit about the rifles. (and yes, I know that handguns can be assault weapons too). The New York law does not really address much of the problem and, I fear, gives people the impression more has changed than has. I wish we’d passed a law that revolved around the selling and buying of guns, not their existence.

I don’t think I’m letting the perfect be the enemy of the good here. There is a finite amount of political capital for the gun issue, and I think the New York law just wasted some of it. And I think it represents a typical problem in our government at large, of penalizing the individual and not penalizing businesses.