Atlantic Magazine Writer James Fallows’ Plan to Expose Gun Rights Advocates’ Racism

By Robert Farago

I’m sorry. I know I should be respectful. We live in a constitutional republic. All citizens have protected rights. Gun control advocates have the same right to free speech as gun rights advocates. Anti-gunners are just as free to mischaracterize, mislead, delude (both themselves and gullible listeners) and lie as pro-gunners are to tell the truth about guns. So … good for them. I guess. But man are the antis idiots. There, I said it. In this case, I’m defining idiocy as believing your own lies. Specifically, the belief that gun rights advocates are, to a man (not women), white racists. It’s the operative idea behind this piece of lunacy forwarded by Atlantic writer James Fallows . . .

[Note: Fallows didn’t write this. It’s a message he received which he deemed important enough to share in his column How to Turn Panic Over Terrorism Against the NRA (Hint: Arm Muslims).]

One sentence in your article reminded me of an idea a friend and I have had for a couple of years to combat the NRA. “[The President] highlighting the disproportion between America’s sky-is-falling sensitivity to the slightest potential risk that could be defined as ‘terrorism’ versus its blasé …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns