Giuliani, from Reason, talking about the gun manufacturers:

They’ve acted negligently by overproducing guns, way beyond the number that’s necessary for hunting and for law enforcement, maybe by factors of 3 and 4 to 1. In doing that, they have knowingly made a calculation that they’re selling to an illegal market, and that’s negligence….In fact, it would be more in their business interest to produce less guns, because the price of guns would go up if there were less guns, just like we were talking about with OPEC, you know, Economics 101. Instead of producing less guns, they produce 6, 7 times more guns than the legal market actually would demand. Therefore they have to know that they’re supplying an illegal market.

So we’ve got two issues here:

1. Rudy seems to think he knows how many guns the market “should” demand. It seems that he would prefer that guns become even more expensive, so that only the rich could protect themselves*.

2. I think his view of an “illegal” market, considering his record on gun ownership, is a lot different than mine.

Really, given his stance on the issues, some people call him a libertarian Republican. Wouldn’t it make more sense to call him a pro-market Democrat?



* Actually, he probably thinks that we shouldn’t be able to protect ourselves, we should leave that to the police.