Press is a big windbag.
He knows his proposal to limit guns to LE, the military and “state militias” has no way of happening.
It makes a dramatic point to remind that gun owners are ready to die on that hill if necessary.
I’m fine with the point being made.
It’s just that to take Press literally is to misrepresent who/what he is.
What he’s really doing is believing that he’s so much smarter than the Americans “who cling to their guns and religion”.
That he’s so much smarter than Scalia.
He believes he’s ridiculing, successfully, all you yayhoos with guns and all who take the second amendment seriously and literally.
To make HIMSELF look cool.
The literal application of his yappings is irrelevant to this yapping dog of the Left.
Bill Press is an arrogant jerk. But he knows bad publicity is much better than no publicity at all. Or, as Oscar Wilde observed,
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
Ergo, he’s a media whore as well. He’s not even original in his absurd prescription. The unmissed Chief Justice Warren Burger once displayed an eighteenth century musket and declared that since muzzleloaders were state of the art for firearms when the Bill of Rights was ratified, then that’s all that citizens are guaranteed the right to own under the Constitution. That’s right, flintlocks.
Bill Press is worth millions of filthy capitalist dollars, so he’s a screaming hypocrite as well. Who cares what he thinks?