Comment on The Wrong Way To Argue About Assault Weapons by William O. B'Livion

Mr. Smith: She is making *exactly* the right sort of argument to someone who doesn't care about guns and doesn't want to know anything about guns. Look, you and I have at least some understanding of violence. We *get* that you can't put enough police on the street to "prevent" crime. Not that you can't *afford* the police (you cannot) but that it simply is not possible to *identify* the bad guys before they commit a crime, and even if you could you couldn't touch them because htey'd broken no law. You and I also understand that criminals are only half of it, that the other half is that active vigilance and a balance of power between the people and the state is necessary (well, no, a "balance" of power isn't necessary, it is necessary that we have MORE power). But there's a significant number of people in this country, most of them Obama Voters who *do not get that*. They think th...