Dave French wants a debate

First, Kristof fails to note that we do, in fact, already work to keep guns out of dangerous hands. 

Not true, Florida kid, like all other Florida kids, allowed to buy AR15

Second, he fails to mention that American gun violence is down 49 percentsince its peak.

Good news, we will cut that in half again. 

Why not even mention the dramatic decline? Perhaps because it coincided with a generation-long easing of restrictions on gun ownership.

Show me the data. We also did a whole lot of other things, like failing to have a world war and killing 30 million.    Point is, our gun laws are still not compliant with the second, poor implementation of 'well regulated'.

No serious gun-rights advocate argues that the Second Amendment protects unregulated gun ownership, of course. 

Even the unserious should be literate, well regulated is in the text. 

A recent Rand study looked at studies of the effects of universal background checks on violent crime and found the evidence “uncertain” and “inconclusive.”

The militias use command and control. Perhaps your serious gun rights nuts cannot read after all, the word is in the friggen text, and capitalized.Militia.   You belong to a recognizable and reliable militia control, target pistols the exception.  Background check just gets you into the militia, from then on we still j=keep an eyue on you and your gun, like a ulitia, with a capital M.

An assault-weapons ban, by contrast, is unenforceable, ineffective, and likely unconstitutional.

It is constitutional, if not, it will soon be.  Judges either read the whole text or we may as well dump the whole thing.  Assault weapons ban unenforceable?  No, easy to enforce, the regulated militias have bigger weapons and they work for common security.  We can erase hem from a distance.