Moving right along in America's gun control, er,
"conversation," we now have the illuminating debate over the
alleged criminality of "Meet the Press" host David Gregory.
Somehow this seems appropriate to the quality of the rest of the
gun debate. [...]

How perfect can you get? Mr. Gregory interrogates Mr. LaPierre on
the subject of whether to ban a magazine that it is illegal for
Mr. Gregory to display but apparently easy enough to acquire in
time for a Sunday morning broadcast. So here we have a
possible indictment that would be entirely nonsensical of a
journalist who was trying to embarrass an NRA official over an
ammunition ban whose impact would be entirely symbolic.

Various media are also reporting that an online petition is
underway on the White House website calling for Mr. Gregory's
indictment. It isn't clear that Mr. Gregory is guilty of
anything other than perhaps overzealousness in pursuit of the
conventional gun-control wisdom, which is not a crime unless we
want to empty newsrooms and fill up jails from coast to
coast.