This story proves that the pro-gun control side isn’t so much in favor of “common sense gun control,” as they are interested in banning all guns that look scary.
Case in point: Shannon Watts, the founder of the anti-gun group “Moms Demand Action.” The group has around 200,000 members nationwide, and is mostly financially supported by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The group was in the news recently for falsely claiming the Stoneman Douglas Massacre was the 18th school shooting this year – a statistic that was only true if you counted any firearm discharged (including a suicide) within the radius of a school as a “school shooting.”
While the group maintains they’re only against semi-automatic weapons (i.e. most of them), and so-called “weapons of war” (i.e. scary-looking guns), if they had a chance, they’d really ban them all. Just look at one recent tweet from Watts about the latest gun she wants her followers to take action against.
For anyone who couldn’t tell, that’s a Ruger Precision Rimfire .22 bolt-action rifle. If someone kills you with one of those, it’s more likely because they beat you to death with it than shot you with it (just kidding, but you get the point). Because it’s bolt action, the gun only can take one shot, as you have to manually reload by pulling the action back and pushing it forward again, pushing a round from the magazine into the chamber.
This is probably the closest kind of firearm to “muskets” available today – which Watts probably think are the only kind of guns protected by the Second Amendment.
More likely, she isn’t even aware of what the gun she tweeted about is, and quickly played the victim after being corrected. NRATV ran a segment in which the host (accurately, I might add) observed that “Shannon Watts probably thinks bolt action has something to do with Fifty Shades of Grey,” in a segment pointing out the absurdity in calling for a ban on those types of firearms.
Watts responded, not by addressing the fact that she wants to ban a squirrel gun, but by calling the NRA “sexist.”
Well, that’s one way to deflect criticism for being clueless.
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