The relentless propagation of the confiscation fantasy paved the way both for the revised new understanding of the Second Amendment and for our three-hundred-million-gun stockpile. Both in turn make really meaningful gun control in the United States impossible: at this point, short of amending the Constitution and buying up guns—that is, fairly confiscating them, as Australia did—what else would do the trick? But doing any such thing, of course, is now a total political fantasy.
