Stick around long enough and the craziest gun control ideas come out of the woodwork. The latest is to hit a 20-year pause button on the Second Amendment.

Pennsylvania Capital-Star guest contributor and gun control advocate Michael Cogbill suggested law-abiding Pennsylvanians should be hamstrung and cut off from protecting themselves. He wants to force a halt to the legal sale of firearms for twenty years (with a pinky promise to give their gun rights back then).

What's more is Cogbill's laundry list of why Pennsylvania politicians should show "courage" and institute a 20-year "blockade on the production and import of firearms" are actually the very legitimate reasons why a record number of Americans chose to legally buy a gun during the past 18 months.

Courage isn't the word that comes to mind. It's lunacy and Cogbill would put Pennsylvanians in danger.

Wrong Song, Wrong Choir

Cogbill wants the gun moratorium because he sees Pennsylvania, in particular, as hard hit by criminal violence over the Independence Day weekend. Using the same flawed data gymnastics that MSNBC's Chris Hayes just tried and for which he was roundly criticized, Cogbill links the high crime in Pennsylvania with the number of firearms legally purchased in 2020 by Pennsylvanians. .....