Here Is David Berkowitz’s Unnecessary Contribution to the Gun-Control Debate

Berkowitz.

Today's most disturbing gun-control debate contributor: David Berkowitz, a.k.a. Son of Sam, the serial killer who shot six people to death (and wounded seven) in New York in the late seventies. In a jail cell interview with the New York Daily News, Berkowitz — who is serving six consecutive 25-years-to-life sentences — said, "Society has to take the glory out of guns." He seemed less focused on the crimes that pushed the topic of firearms back into the news recently — the shootings in Aurora, Colorado, and at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin — and more interested in the "gangbanging teens and wanna-bes" he's encountered during his time in prison. "My hope is just that young people would understand just how terrible this violence is. When they use a gun against someone else, they ruin their lives too," he said. "It’s not worth it." Neither, perhaps, is speaking to David Berkowitz about guns, but there you have it.

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David Petraeus Really, Really Doesn’t Want to Be Vice-President

Petraeus's face today, probably.

Matt Drudge is known to be tuned in to Romneyworld through Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades, so whenever he has a scoop, people pay attention, even if that scoop seems absurd on its face. And today's scoop seems absurd on its face.

Now, don't get us wrong: David Petraeus would probably be an amazing, game-changing running mate. But there are two major reasons not to take the possibility seriously. The first is that Petraeus is currently the head of the C.I.A., and it's almost unthinkable that he would abruptly ditch such an important post and leave the agency in the lurch. The second problem is that no single person over the past few years has been quite as Shermanesque about ever running for office. Here is his response in March of 2010 to rumors that he may run for president:

"I will not, ever, run for political office, I can assure you." Here he is again on Meet the Press that August:

"I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction." A few months ago, a CIA spokesperson took on the VP rumors directly:

And for what it's worth, NBC's Andrea Mitchell has her own sources, and they are laughing.

Maybe Romney does want Petraeus on his ticket, but he'd also probably love to have Ronald Reagan, and that scenario seems just about as likely.

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