Gun-rights fanatics are having a field day with the opinion piece penned by the West Virginia Journalism Professor Christopher Swindell last week. They love it when someone on the gun control side says inflammatory and hyperbolic things. They pretend those things were said in earnest and not just to make a point. They act outraged and most of all, they repeat and repeat the out-of-context quotes in a silly attempt to paint gun control folks as raving lunatics.
Not one of those critical comments or blog posts contained the real message of Professor Swindell's essay.
So, to return to reality, all of us. Let's make common sense gun safety a deciding issue for 2014 and beyond. The NRA certainly has. Let's push back. We the People. The 85 percent who support more robust background checks. And when the next domestic terrorist with an assault rifle comes along, we can blame the leaders and fringe of the NRA for arming them.
Now, that's a little different from summarily executing NRA members by firing squad, don't you think? In fact, it sound down right democratic, mentioning the issue of common sense gun safety.
As far as who'll be to blame for the next mass shooting, I've always been in agreement with that.
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