THE NEW YORK SUN: Mayor Bloomberg and Ice-T. “The problem the mayor has is that it turns out that, even after more than two centuries, Americans like this freedom, and they are prepared to risk a lot for it. That is the meaning of the refusal of our democratic institutions to do what the mayor wants on guns. . . . It is a scandal that this most basic article of the Bill of Rights is not in force now in the leading city in America because the mayor, among others, refuses to bow to the Constitution that he is bound by oath to support.”

UPDATE: A reader emails: “I’ve passed Michael Bloomberg’s townhouse nearly every day since long before he became mayor of Fair Gotham. There is *always* at least one armed person (wearing a NYPD uniform) standing at his front door on East 79th Street.”