The Senate has voted down what Tom over at Radio Free New Jersey called “the perfect gun law.” The law — actually an amendment to a funding bill — would have required states to recognize each other’s carry permits, just as they currently recognize each other’s driver licenses. In the words of America’s Newspaper of Record:

The amendment, introduced by South Dakota Republican John Thune, would force police departments in states and localities with restrictive gun laws, like New York, to recognize gun permits obtained in states with less restrictive laws, such as Vermont.

Now that the amendment is dead, we can all go on living, rather than face the bloodbath predicted by those ever-vigilant guardians of New Yorkers’ health and welfare, Nanny Schumer and Nurse Bloomberg, if it had been approved.

“There will be needless suffering, injuries and deaths if this amendment is passed,” warned Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

Yessir, it would have been High Noon up and down the streets and avenues of Manhattan if this thing had gone through, with bullets cracking past our ears as we scurried to the subway entrance past heaps of riddled corpses. Just like in, you know, Vermont.

New York’s other U.S. Senator is going for the coveted Strange New Respect Award from the D.C. liberal establishment:

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, once a darling of the National Rifle Association when she served in the House, announced she would oppose the amendment … “She would have always voted against this amendment, because it pre-empts states laws,” said her spokeswoman, Bethany Lesser.

Just like those evil driver-license laws do. How our congresscritters love the Tenth Amendment! — when it suits them to.