Matthew Bracken (@Matt_Bracken)

The Elephant in the Gun-Control Room Bob Barr July 24, 2019 The world in which most liberals live is one of magic and fairytales -- where socialist systems have starved millions of people and destroyed every economy forced into its model, but which certainly will work the next time. It is a world in which using fascist tactics to silence opponents actually makes you an anti-fascist; and where presidential candidates can promise everything for everyone, and still have enough money left over to cut taxes. In this fantasy land, anything is possible if you just feel it to be true. Perhaps nowhere is the Left’s disconnect from reality more acute than in its assault on the Second Amendment. Despite decades of gun control proposals debunked time and again, the same schemes and arguments regularly are recycled and repackaged. Democrats remain convinced that Americans are just waiting for permission to hand over their firearms and their God-given right to self-defense. After all, Democrats say, other countries are doing it, so why not us? https://townhall.com/columnists/bobbarr/2019/07/24/the-elephant-in-the-guncontrol-room-n2550471