Yeah I know, you could have knocked me over with a feather, too. But here's the article, and I am in the odd position of enthusiastically agreeing with one of the most liberal liberals in town.

Cohen is close, so damned close to that final revelation:

...I am, like all reasonable people, in favor of the tightest restrictions on guns. I fear the things, since they are easily concealed and lethal. The more there are, the more chances they will fall into the wrong hands. That is precisely what I feared the night I was burglarized -- not that the burglar had a knife (I had scissors), but a gun.



But even in my most anti-NRA moods, I want the cops to be armed, since, among other things, just by being so, they deter crime. Armed pilots would also be a deterrent.



The revelation, that ten billion gun laws would not have disarmed that burglar, and that a gun in the hands of ANY law-abiding citizen is a deterrent, is just a short mental click away...