Justice John Paul Stevens has bad timing.

With his most recent New York Times op-ed, the retired Supreme Court justice has upped the gun control ante at a moment when liberals are particularly unprepared. Stevens calls on the Left to take up repeal of the Second Amendment as the only effective and durable measure against gun violence, something that until recently only the most extreme would openly embrace.

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