Back when the New York Times revealed the existence of an NSA call tracking program aimed at detecting communications between people in America and known terrorists overseas the left went nuts.  They claimed civil rights abuses and violations of privacy.  They called Bush administration officials criminals, and some even said those running this program were worse than the terrorists they were trying to thwart.

But now, on a different issue, Democrats are all about divulging all sorts of information about law-abiding gun owners to help cops track criminals.

Now, to me, tracking calls makes sense.  Being able to access a database of who called who and when allows our anti-terror forces to take down terror cells by tracking communications.  I fail to see how tracking gun owners helps law enforcement solve crimes.  Law enforcement needs to track the people who commit crimes with guns, not the guns themselves.  The only reason to track gun ownership and sales is to prosecute crimes to amount to little more than owning a particular model of gun that some bureaucrat has deemed illegal.  Of course, the idea that simply possessing a particular model of gun is a crime is absurd, but whatever.

The point is that Democrats are outright hypocrites on this.  If it’s ok for the government to track the details of my gun ownership, ostensibly to stop crime, why is not ok for the government to track call data to stop terrorism?

I’d like some liberal to explain this double standard to me.