**Posted by Phineas
All too predictably, gun control advocates raced to take advantage [1] of the atrocity of yesterdays’s mass shooting at the Navy Yard to press their case, this time by decrying the use of an AR-15 [2] in the killings, the semi-automatic rifle having become the fear-object of choice for people who hate the Second Amendment (1).
Trouble is, the shooter didn’t use an AR-15 [3]. From what can be reconstructed, he entered the base armed with a legally-purchased shotgun (Joe Biden’s “Good Weapon”) and at some point obtained a pistol. But, gun-rights defenders are also wrong: there was at least one AR-15 involved in the shooting.
It was used by the police [4] to kill the bad guy.
Sorry, gun-grabbers.
PS: After the last mass shooting, at Newtown, there was a lot of talk about the dangers of gun-free zones [5]. So, will someone please explain, why, of all places, are military bases [6] still gun-free zones, per a Clinton-era regulation? These are people trained to use firearms and respond to combat situations. Why are we forcing them to be sitting ducks?
via Doug Powers [7]
Footnote:
(1) And check out how this Advanced Placement Exam textbook mangles the Second Amendment [8]. That is either gross ignorance or deliberate deception.
UPDATE: Based on a couple of comments on Twitter, I should clarify something. The point isn’t to argue over what kind of weapon was used, per se, but to correct the misinformation the reactionary Left uses to advance its agenda for an eventual gun ban. (Regardless of what they say, that’s where gun-control logic leads [9].) If left uncorrected with the truth at all times, the lie becomes the dominant narrative and the momentum goes to the gun-grabbers.
(Crossposted at Public Secrets [10])