KRISTOF WATCH: Just noticed that Jeff Goldstein had the same reaction I did to Nick Kristof’s gun-show column today:

Now, perhaps I’m hypersensitive to these kinds of things, but Jolly Old Slant Nick seems to’ve larded down his prose with a bunch of caricaturish signifiers meant to demean and villify gun enthusiasts. I mean, Confederate flags, Nick? Fuse wire? Sexist, gun-lovin’, hickish bumper stickers? “Concealed” handguns?

The only thing missing from Kristof’s heavily-armed strawman city is the tobacco-spittin Mayor, a moron in camouflage who “ain’t gonna sell no gun to no Jew,” but “sure as shit’ll shoot me some. Yeeehawwww!”

Here’s a tip, Nick: Until you start taking gun owners seriously, the educated folks who believe in the Second Amendment will dismiss you as irrelevant.

Indeed.