The Privilege of Misconstruing Data

By NRAHQ

Fairfax, VA – -(Ammoland.com)- Earlier this month, the head of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America (Shannon Watts, not benefactor Michael Bloomberg) brutally dismissed an op-ed in the New York Times by Bethany Mandel as an anecdote of fear and paranoia.

The anecdote? As a young girl, a home intruder climbing through her bedroom window threatened Mandel.

Her mother used a firearm to defend her. More recently, Mandel routinely received death threats for her political commentary and was doxxed by neo-Nazis – which led her to obtain a firearms permit in her home state of New Jersey. In other words, Ms. Mandel was literally saved by a firearm as a child and obtained a firearms permit to protect herself and her own child after neo-Nazis published her home address.

Ms. Watts chalked Ms. Mandel’s efforts to protect herself from the very real threats as privilege: