“In our country, assault weapons have become the subjects of limitless and absurd gun-fetishist metaphysics, of the medieval angels-and-pins kind . . . the argument seems to be that, failing some essential definition of an assault weapon, no assault weapon can be believed to exist—not only should they not be banned, they cannot be banned because they are not a fixed, eternal category in the mind of the God of guns.” – Adam Gopnik in Sanity from the Courts on Gun Control in a Time of Trump [via newyorker.com]