Is personal liberty a valid consideration in formulating gun laws? Are different

sorts of guns essentially different in their capacity to be misused? Is there a correlation between a state's or locality's gun-control laws and the crime rate in that place? Such questions still vex our country more than twenty years later, but some light is shed on them by WFB and his guests, Mr. Kukla an advocate of legal handguns, Mr. Mikva the author of legislation to curtail them. AJM: "Does [Mr. Kukla] really mean that you should be able to carry a gun down the streets of New York, just in case somebody wants to rip you off?" WFB: "We'll have no reductio ad absurdum on this program."