Why Anti-Gunners Should Be Wary Of Invoking Fictional Harry Potter

By Tom Knighton

Since the current debate is on guns, many people are invoking Harry Potter as somehow evidence of…well, something.

1/ One thing I noticed while reporting on the #NeverAgainMSD students ahead of the #MarchForOurLives: this is not just a generation that has grown up with school shootings— it’s also a generation that grew up reading Harry Potter

— Charlotte Alter (@CharlotteAlter) March 24, 2018

Harry Potter has almost become their playbook: the Ones Who Lived fighting an “evil” force that has infiltrated the government and brainwashed adults using only the powers they’ve learned in school: illumination, protection, disarmament. cc @jk_rowling

— Charlotte Alter (@CharlotteAlter) March 24, 2018

They refer to HP a lot. They call Rick Scott “Voldemort.” Bill Nelson is “a cross between Dumbledore and a dragon.” .@Emma4Change, who is still reading book 7, compared this battle to the showdown between the Dumbledore’s Army and the Death Eaters inside the ministry of magic

— Charlotte Alter (@CharlotteAlter) March 24, 2018

And this is a national correspondent for Time, not just some left-leaning whackjob.

However, as Alex Griswold argues at the Washington Free Beacon, Harry Potter works both ways.

Even if you buy …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms