Gun nuts' fantasies vs. real world tragedies
You remember that serious conversation we were going to have about guns? Here's how serious it has turned out to be.
Recently, President Barack Obama described himself in an interview with The New Republic as an avid skeet shooter. Conservatives scoffed at the claim, whereupon the White House whipped out photographic proof.
It was a meaningless exchange, except insofar as it suggests the White House implicitly accepts the dubious formulation, held by some gun advocates, that if one has no personal experience with guns, one cannot speak about guns. By extension of that logic, Rick Santorum can never say another word about abortion. But of course, he will because the logic is illogical.
Not that that was the most unserious moment in this supposedly serious conversation. No, that came last week when Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that we must avoid new gun restrictions because guns are a citizen's protection in the event the federal government decides to enslave us.
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_22531561/leonard-pitts-jr-gun-nuts-fantasies-vs-real
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