Noisy: 80’s Guitarist Cranks out a Ballad for Gun Control

By Jenn Jacques

An offshoot of the site VICE, Noisey was launched in 2011 to highlight “new and exciting music across the globe” and, according to their website, “uses music as a lens to investigate the movements, scenes, and stories” that drive our culture “through in-depth reporting and incisive storytelling”.

Deep, man.

Apparently, “in-depth reporting” means tapping the guitarist of an 80’s rock band to opine on gun control in his column “Hey, did you see this… with Duff McKagan”. The Guns ‘n Roses bassist, or as I call him -you know, the other guy, not Slash- is obviously an authority on gun laws and Second Amendment politics. After all, he’s in a band called Guns and Roses.

According to McKagan, there’s “some super-heavy s— going down in the world right now” and he doesn’t want to “write some piece-of-s— article to create another snazzy social media ‘headline’ for people to click on and f—ing ‘like,’” he felt compelled to weigh in on what he sees as a common-sense, cut-and-dried argument.

When President Obama came out with his announcement of trying to procure background checks for online sales and at gun shows. I was slightly stunned that this practice hadn’t been in use since …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms