It’s still a turd and not a cake
Tina Brown, the newly-minted British ex-patriot Newsweek editor-in-chief, certainly isn’t waisting any time promoting her agenda. By now it’s pretty old news that the anti-gun/anti-Second Amendment crowd (i.e. the political left) has been trying to use the Tucson active shooter situation to get new gun control laws passed, like a high-capacity magazine (not “clip”) ban and a new federal assault weapons ban (AWB). It’s par for the course, really, and to be expected. However, Newsweek just did something sneaky. In a call-to-arms (excuse the pun)-style pro-gun-control opinion piece, two of its writers, Andrew Romano and Pat Wingert, attempted to rebrand gun control as “gun safety” in their not-so-subtly (or pleasantly) titled article 2,405 Shot Dead Since Tucson.
I’ve seen that with the Brady Campaign and its feeble attempt to paint the coward Colin Goddard as some sort of ‘gun safety’ expert (I don’t know how he can be considered a safety expert being that he didn’t even have a gun and still managed to get shot while cowering under a desk). I carry a firearm with me pretty much every day and I’ve got a pretty good safety record of not getting shot.
Look for this as the new meme from the gun banners. The term ‘control’ leaves a bad taste in people’s mouths, so they’re going to try to put some fancy new bread on the shit sandwich they sell and call it a Panini. Sadly, there will be plenty of people who will eat the whole thing and declare it delicious.
Our work isn’t done. Not by far.
Hat Tip Alphecca