from him that would make me happy would be if
he said he'd BUY all the guns in this country and
melt them down to nothing.

Of course, he isn't going to say that, he'll just
boast about something or other to obscure his
ignorance.

to how great he is at something else.

There is an obvious pattern to his interviews, which shows he does have the ability to learn. An old political trick is to answer an uncomfortable question by answering an entirely different one. Ed Koch used to be a master at this.