Why are people trying to defend this "journalist?" Or apologize for her inaccuracies?
Listen: If you are a media figure and are going to be snarky, then you better sound intelligent. Bottom line. Otherwise, you are going to leave yourself open to acidic criticism. That goes for anyone in any public forum, and for any social issue.
Think about it. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. If a fair number of gun-haters had chimed in to Snead's original, ignorant comment, the response would have emboldened Snead, the LA Times collective stance towards gun-owners (not favorable, by the way), and gun control in general. It would further their agenda.
Acidic criticism from the opposition has negated any chance of that happening. As stinging as some of the gun rights' supporters responses have been, they reek of intolerable and intuitive truths.
Wake up people. We are in a cultural war. Period. We don't have to be knuckle-dragging troglodytes in our fervor of the RKBA. But enough with this milquetoast attitude of empathy and rhetorical pacifism at any cost.
That attitude is not only absurd, but it has been proven numerous times throughout history to be self-defeating. Every time.
Do you think the gay rights movement got where they are today by saying: "Hey, we have to prove to our opponents that we are always masculine and should never act feminine. Because that's the opposite of what they expect."
In other words, you gotta be who you are. You can't change your strategy to over-compensate for what the opposition thinks you are.
Who we are, as gun owners, and as fervent supporters of RKBA, are individuals always capable in engaging in civil discourse; but who will tell it like it is when it has to be so. Sometimes that will be less than genial.
We need to point out their foolishness every time, and that will inevitably be quite often.
By the way, that Elizabeth Snead is HOT. Wow.
And this was my favorite response. Not the funniest, but the most succinct:
""It's funny to watch so-called tolerant libs comment ignorantly about things they aren't tolerant of."" --posted by Toni