I’ll be shocked if there isn’t a question on gun control tonight at the Democratic debate, considering that tonight is the one year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shooting.

Unfortunately, the question will probably be some variation of, “what would you do as President to prevent this from happening again?” And both Democrats will answer that they support the Second Amendment (as Chris Matthews would say, “HA!”), perhaps make a reference to respecting hunters (even though the Second Amendment says nothing about hunting), and tout their support of unspecified “common sense efforts to prevent gun violence.”

A better question, pinning the candidates down more precisely, would be to ask, “do you support Philadelphia’s recently passed five gun laws, laws that even supporters concede explicitly violate Pennsylvania state law protecting the citizens’ rights to bear arms?”

What’s it going to be, Democrats? The city’s laws are unconstitutional? Or that you’ll stick with urban Democrats who want to ignore the Second Amendment?