Matthew Yglesias writes on his Substack:
If all the privately owned firearms somehow vanished from the United States tomorrow, that would do an enormous amount to bring down the murder rate. But that goes against every tradition that we have in this country, and it’s not something that people want. I think it makes Democrats look silly when we start talking like regulating exactly which kind of rifles hobbyists can buy is going to make a difference to a crime problem that is overwhelmingly about small, easily concealed handguns, most of which aren’t even purchased legally. The kind of “gun control” we actually need is to arrest people carrying illegal guns, and to crack down on the people selling them. I think we really need to bend over backwards to reassure law-abiding people that this is not a slippery slope to gun confiscation, and that means not even nibbling around the edges of restricting people’s Second Amendment rights.
Sounds sensible, if I say so myself …
I know you've written that you don't care if others steal your ideas or rhetorical flourishes and palm them off as their own, but isn't it galling to have this little toad do it?
Maybe we should just make murder illegal; that would stop 'em!