THE NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS ONCE AGAIN DISPLAY THEIR IGNORANCE ON FIREARMS, and Tom Maguire is there to mock them cruelly. “The ‘according to research’ link provided by the editors takes us to the Violence Policy Center, which is a step up from their recent editorial linking to a rival of The Onion.” Well, possibly. VPC is laughable, as opposed to humorous.

Plus: “The burst you hear is laughter. Do they even know that semi-automatic weapons fire one shot per trigger pull, or are they having a flashback to the Imperial Storm Troopers in the Star Wars trailer? Their own polling on that issue has gone against them, so it seems as if the Great Unwashed are figuring out just how phony the assault weapons debate is, even if the Times has not.”