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“Newsweek” Attempts to Rebrand Gun Control Scheme as “Gun Safety” Cause: Tina Brown Gets Cute,
defensereview.com ^ | 15 March, 2010 | David Crane

Posted on 03/16/2011 6:05:28 AM PDT by marktwain

Tina Brown, the newly-minted British ex-patriot Newsweek editor-in-chief, certainly isn’t waisting any time promoting her agenda. By now it’s pretty old news that the anti-gun/anti-Second Amendment crowd (i.e. the political left) has been trying to use the Tucson active shooter situation to get new gun control laws passed, like a high-capacity magazine (not “clip”) ban and a new federal assault weapons ban (AWB). It’s par for the course, really, and to be expected. However, Newsweek just did something sneaky. In a call-to-arms (excuse the pun)-style pro-gun-control opinion piece, two of its writers, Andrew Romano and Pat Wingert, attempted to rebrand gun control as “gun safety” in their not-so-subtly (or pleasantly) titled article 2,405 Shot Dead Since Tucson. Here are the relevant excerpts, all from the Newsweek piece:

- By outspending, out-organizing, and out-politicking its opponents, the NRA persuaded Democrats, who can control Congress only if they control red districts, to abandon gun safety in the 1980s and 1990s, and since then it has successfully pressed for ever-looser local laws.

- Few politicians are eager to paddle against such a powerful tide, which is why so many of them called for “a new era of civility” after one of their colleagues was shot in the head—as opposed to, say, a new era of gun safety.

- It’s hard not to wonder whether Obama’s plan is to pacify liberal critics by continuing to mention some vague dream of addressing gun safety at some wispy future date—then to cross his fingers and hope they forget.

- Gun-safety advocates would argue that Obama has a moral duty to stanch the bleeding, and that may be true.

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1 posted on 03/16/2011 6:05:34 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain
2,405 Shot Dead Since Tucson

I say BS!

2 posted on 03/16/2011 6:14:12 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: marktwain

Nobody cared about Newsweek before and they will care even less now that Tina’s in charge.


3 posted on 03/16/2011 6:15:01 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: marktwain

Gun control - Hitting where you aim.

Gun safety -
Treat every gun as if it is loaded.
Keep your finger off the trigger until you intend to shoot.
Don’t point your gun at anything you do not intend to destroy.

What’s so hard about that?


4 posted on 03/16/2011 6:15:07 AM PDT by CPOSharky (The only thing straight, white, Christian males get is the blame for everthing.)
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To: marktwain
certainly isn’t waisting any time...

Uhmmmmm...

5 posted on 03/16/2011 6:15:45 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Islam is a violent and tyrannical political ideology and has nothing to do with "religion".)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Bingo.


6 posted on 03/16/2011 6:29:06 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: marktwain
A lot of things are going to happen on this world but Tina Brown is never going to "get cute". Surgical skills like that simply don't exist.

BTW and FWIW, the word is "expatriate" not "ex-patriot". The author shouldn't rely on spell check for everything.

7 posted on 03/16/2011 6:33:36 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Obama. Chauncey Gardiner without the homburg.)
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To: marktwain

It’s only gun safety for the criminals.


8 posted on 03/16/2011 6:47:18 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

It gets better, “ex-patriot” instead of “expatriate.”


9 posted on 03/16/2011 7:20:21 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: muir_redwoods

I’ve seen a lot of instances where people think the proper term is actually “ex-patriot” and don’t even know “expatriate” exists. It’s strange to them when I say “he’s an expatriate, but still a patriot.”


10 posted on 03/16/2011 7:34:40 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Puppage

>2,405 Shot Dead Since Tucson.

Well okay, maybe the inner city democrat controlled cesspools could have this rate, sure but that would exceed out war deaths by a long shot in any comparable period of time, so it must be a quagmire!

We need to pull out of the major metro areas.


11 posted on 03/16/2011 8:18:08 AM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: marktwain

Gun Safety — Liberal stay away and never speak of guns again.


12 posted on 03/16/2011 8:21:48 AM PDT by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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To: Puppage

“2,405 Shot Dead Since Tucson
I say BS”

Absolutely a lie!!!


13 posted on 03/16/2011 11:15:23 AM PDT by chooseascreennamepat (I have a liberal arts degree, do you want fries with that?)
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To: marktwain

Bill Clinton tried the same thing during his administration.


14 posted on 03/16/2011 11:17:57 AM PDT by techcor (I hope Obama succeeds, in being a one term president.)
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To: marktwain

Gun Control: Stance, grip, sight picture, breath control, trigger pull, follow-through.


15 posted on 03/16/2011 11:49:03 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: marktwain
Gun-safety advocates would argue that Obama has a moral duty to stanch the bleeding, and that may be true.

And I say Obama has a 'moral duty' to RESIGN immediately. As it's apparent by his actions that he really wants to be a GOLFER!!!

16 posted on 03/16/2011 12:28:03 PM PDT by Condor51 (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Congressman. But I repeat myself. [Mark Twain])
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Spelled expatriate wrong, too.


17 posted on 03/16/2011 1:13:55 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: bmwcyle

EPA will pick it up as a health threat


18 posted on 03/16/2011 1:22:23 PM PDT by colonialhk (Elect Veterans not Lawyers)
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To: Puppage

Possibly not. We run about 30K gun deaths per year - a bit over 2K per month.
Most of them suicides. Many of the rest are scum killing scum with no net loss to society. The remaining ones ARE tragedies.
Almost NONE of them are accidents; some “accidents” are suicide being covered up for insurance reasons. When you get right down to it, guns are pretty safe.

If they were really for “gun safety” they would have gun safety and marksmanship classes in school...


19 posted on 03/16/2011 1:33:01 PM PDT by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Heading, with terror and slaughter return!)
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