Incendiary Image of the Day: Short Stuff at MI Open Carry Demo Edition

By Robert Farago

mlive.com posted the above the image of a rifle-toting child above their story As gun advocates rally outside Michigan Capitol, lawmakers debate guns inside schools. (More on that later.) Obviously, the kid was a black swan (i.e., it wasn’t a children’s crusade for gun rights). You may see nothing wrong here. Hell, you might even be proud that there’s a guns 3.0 heading our way. But the paper’s editors knew the picture of a child openly carrying an “assault rifle” would shock some readers’ delicate sensibilities; readers who would fail to notice the gun’s orange tip, indicting that it’s a toy. Equally, the shot exemplifies and justifies the editors’ anti-gun bias/agenda. Which is under assault (so to speak). Meanwhile, will someone please get the lad a toy rifle with a shorter stock?

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