be glibly dismissed.]

I've said before that NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg is the greatest current threat to our Second Amendment rights because he's much smarter than the increasingly sophomoric internet trolls who now run the Brady Campaign and VPC, and because he's seemed to know how to choose his battles.

I may need to amend that position.

At the moment, the greatest threat to his little gun control enclave is the National Right to Carry Reciprocity Act, which would finally make carry licenses universal, just like driver's licenses and marriage licenses.* Since the City has ignored the right to carry for just over a century, granting permits only as political favors, this would force Bloomberg for the first time to respect a right he hates, right in his back yard. Fightingbubble ever since it started climbing at the start of the 21st century, since when the prices have climbed from $256 an ounce to a high of just under nineteen hundred dollars, with detractors yelling their tol'jya-sos at every pullback along the way. This "plunge" to the high fifteen hundreds may reasonably frighten recent investors who bought in the seventeen hundreds, but it still represents huge gains to the long term gold bugs at whom the taunting is usually aimed.

Second, these commentators fundamentally misunderstand the people they're taunting. An investor hoping to make money on gold is dismayed by a price drop. A hardcore gold bug is hedging against future economic catastrophe, in which gold will definitely be worth more than it is today. Even if that's three