Many on today's Left flatter themselves as being more "reality-based" than the Right. Liberals care more about science, data and the empirically proven, you'll hear from MSNBC or the New Republic. But Obama's arguments for gun control aren't based on data or logic. They are based on aspersions, emotion and popular fears. In other words, it's politics as usual.

◼ In gun control push, Obama abandons logic and facts - Timothy P. Carney/Washington Examiner @TPCarney

After December's Sandy Hook massacre, Obama has reached deeper than usual into his bag of debater's tricks and rhetorical ploys. He assigns evil motives to those who disagree with him on policy. He tries to pre-empt cost-benefit analysis with facile assertions that any policy is mandatory if it will save "only one life." And the most contentious policy he seeks -- a ban on so-called assault weapons -- has near zero correlation to the problem he claims to be addressing.