The only thing I’d add is that I’m not taking lectures about gun safety from any of the Baldwin brothers. Considering recent events involving Baldwin’s older brother, it’s more than a little painfully ironic that Baldwin chooses to paint Florida as the “Wild West.”

[This is a response to an earlier NRO post from Charles C.W. Cooke on Billy Baldwin’s Twitter rant:]

One can only imagine that Baldwin believes that states that pass permitless carry see an increase in crime as a result. But they don’t — which is one reason, among many, that not one of the 26 states that has passed permitless carry legislatively (Vermont’s was achieved via a judicial decision in 1903) has repealed the system, or even held a hearing on the matter. Ultimately, this is a bureaucratic change: starting in 2003, a majority of the states looked at their permitting systems, noticed that they weren’t doing anything useful, and resolved to get rid of them. If your aim is to ban all guns — and you’re thus opposed to anything that gets you further away from that end — that’s probably quite annoying. If that’s not your aim, then what Florida did is either a marginal improvement or entirely irrelevant to you, and the sort of hyperventilation that is on display from Billy Baldwin and others must look as mystifying as it does to me.

[Maybe Billy should spend his time lecturing Alec about gun safety, eh? — Ed]