I’ve offered this deal before, and, so far, no takers: David Sirota opens his latest asinine column on gun rights with a sentence that is either ignorant or dishonest:

Gun control advocates counter that the Constitution doesn’t give anyone the inalienable right to wield automatic weapons that can kill scores of people in seconds.

That is rubbish.

If we give “seconds” the most generous logical definition — less than one minute — and “scores” the most narrow logical definition we can — 40 — then Sirota is writing that the debate is about weapons that can be used to kill at least 40 people in less than one minute. So here’s a wager: Take any weapon covered by the unlamented “Assault Weapons Ban,” and I’ll bet one month of my income vs. one month of Sirota’s that he cannot use it to put 40 holes in 40 human-size targets — much less moving human-size targets — in less than one minute on any tactical shooting course in the United States. Sirota likes to brag about how he understands the “gun culture” because he lives in the West — Denver – so I’m sure he’ll have no problem.

So: ignorant, dishonest, or taking bets?