...as if a million gun-control advocates suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
The Washington Post published this opinion piece Tuesday night:
I don’t particularly like the AR-15, although it is one of the
most popular rifles in the country. Three million have been sold,
according to an NRA researcher. But to define it as an assault rifle
because of how it looks — with a pistol grip, adjustable stock,
flash suppressor and “high capacity” magazine — is silly.
You want to see a dangerous-looking gun, look at the one President
Obama was photographed skeet shooting with at Camp David last summer.
That shotgun of his was big enough to take down a woolly mammoth.
When I pulled the trigger on the AR-15, one high-powered round came
out. Maybe I hit something; maybe I didn’t. Obama can’t miss. He
could clear a room with one double-barreled blast.
Why ban one and not the other? And once you start banning
semiautomatics, where do you stop?
If gun control advocates were truly serious and not just well
meaning, they’d be focusing a lot more on education and mental
health. For instance, everybody knows that our children are being
adversely affected by violent video games. So why aren’t schools
deconstructing video games as part of the curriculum, explaining to
students how the military uses these same war games to condition
troops to kill without remorse?
It just goes on and on like that. This piece is by one of WaPo's local opinion writers, Courtland Milloy.
Absolutely shocking that WaPo would publish something like this.
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