FISKING ROBERT RENO: Suman Palit is unimpressed with Reno’s latest column, which suggests that “the constitutional right to ‘bear’ arms must be abridged in new and more imaginative ways.”

So Reno is openly calling for “imaginative ways” to “abridge” the Bill of Rights? And these guys think that Ashcroft is a threat to civil liberties? (Palit: “I can think of imaginative ways to abridge every single Amendment on the grounds that it hurts someone, somewhere.. a bag of peanuts to the first person who can tell this man why we don’t. “)

Palit calls Reno’s arguments “childlike,” but frankly that credits Reno with a degree of innocence that is not evidenced by his statements.