Tag: assault weapons
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Meta-spam! It’s shelf-stable!
If you want to know what NRA talking points were circulated after Newtown, just look at the comments in any forum like Facebook, or Huffpo, or NYT, or a “gunner” forum. A few examples: An AR-15 isn’t an assault weapon because it isn’t full-auto! Yes, Virginia, it is an assault weapon. If it makes you…
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Each Tragedy is an Argument for Gun Control
In what is becoming a kind of trend, Reason and Politics has written an entry in response to today’s tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. Josh wrote a piece that I could have written almost verbatim and it would be entirely accurate. Please give it a read. I grew up around guns, was educated on their destructive…