Shooting Blanks

Watching the mayor take on certain causes in which we don’t share his views, we’ve grown to have a good deal of respect for him, even when we think he’s wrong. So we’re not here to jeer at the demarche on guns that he announced in his inaugural address on Sunday. He wants a national debate about gun control, with an eye to exporting New York’s strict gun control laws elsewhere. And we say, let’s, by all means, have that debate. If we do, however, the mayor is likely to discover that if other states have gun control laws that are less onerous than ours, it’s because other states have caught on to the fact that those laws don’t cut crime.