Given these last weeks, who doesn’t know what an AR-15 is? Who hasn’t seen the mind-boggling stats on the way assault rifles have
flooded this country, or tabulations of accumulating Newtown-style
mass killings, or noted that there are
barely more gas stations nationwide than federally licensed firearms dealers, or heard the renewed debates over the Second Amendment, or been struck by the
rapid shifts in public opinion on gun control, or checked out the disputes over how
effective an assault-rifle ban was
the last time around? Who doesn’t know about the NRA’s
suggestion to weaponize schools, or about
the price poor neighborhoods may be paying in gun deaths for the present expansive interpretation of the Second Amendment?