A reporter goes to the gun show:

Whether I told people I was doing an article or not, people could tell (that notebook’s a dead giveaway) that I was a commie, pinko, faggot, city slicker out to get them. And although people were generally polite, the majority refused to speak with me or give me their names. They did not want to be cited in a piece they feared would be a hatchet job.

I wonder why that is? It’s not like reporters misrepresent gun shows or anything? But I do have to give the article credit for its honesty at accurately portraying the assault weapons ban. Key quote:

It’s all actually fairly complicated and most people who would pronounce themselves pro-assault-weapons ban would have a hard time telling you what exactly is now available that wasn’t. Certainly, going to a gun show before and after the ban, your casual observer would be hard pressed to identify the newly available guns.

Indeed they would. From a distance, I sometimes can’t identify previously banned weapons. Kudos.

Posted in uncategorized on December 3rd, 2004 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |