OMG! A Christmas Offer From Cabela’s: “The Kind of Semiautomatic Rifle Used in San Bernardino”! OMG!

By Robert Farago

“Readers of The Oregonian have received an unusual Christmas offer from outdoor retailer Cabela’s,” Oregon’s Willamette Week reports, “the same type of military-style rifle used in this month’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif.
The advertising insert, placed last week in Oregonian print editions, features as its central item the Smith & Wesson M&P15 Sport, a semiautomatic rifle.” And this is a problem because? Because guns! Like this . . .

“I personally found this ad totally insensitive to what happened in Roseburg, Southern California and every place that has had mass shootings,” Menely writes. “This weapon that is displayed is clearly not a hunting rifle.”
Whether the M&P15 is a hunting rifle is a matter of some debate. But the gun was used by killers in two recent mass shootings.

“I personally found this ad totally insensitive to what happened in Roseburg, Southern California and every place that has had mass shootings,” Menely writes. “This weapon that is displayed is clearly not a hunting rifle.”
Whether the M&P15 is a hunting rifle is a matter of some debate. But the gun was used by killers in two recent mass shootings.

Eschewing the debate over whether or not tens of thousands of Americans …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns