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Angel Shamaya wrote:
>First retraction we've had to print in a very long time -- as in,
>years.
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http://KeepAndBearArms.com/information/Item.asp?ID=3643
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>Still a bad bill, for reasons cited, but it's definitely not
>immediately as bad as the letter we published suggested.
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>I got a good strong lesson on why I do my own analysis.
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>Appreciate your kind heads up. Some people prefer attacking to
>kindness and name-calling over substance. Such is politics. I'd
>rather be fishing...
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>--AS
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Dear Mr. Shamaya:
Rightly or wrongly, at least in the tactical sense, I have been one of
your most vociferous critics over the past week on THR. I don't
particularly relish attacking either KABA or yourself, but when I feel I
must, I can bash the both with a clear conscience when either or both
are deserving.
If you want to bother, I began the week by giving you the benefit of the
doubt. Proof of that can be found in the C-Span meta thread on THR. I
actually defended your role regarding the republication of the RMGO
"sell out" alert. I know from vast experience lurking on your mostly
enjoyable site that you do in fact publish just about any linked article
or release.
However, as the week wore on, I saw you slip into a role that I am not
certain you ever fully appreciate you are playing. By all appearances,
you appeared more than ready to don your "I hate the NRA" superhero
outfit. Since I do not know any of you personally, I guess I have to
accept at face value any assertions that KABA members make regarding a
lack of hatred for the NRA, despite those protestations not being
believable in the least.
This time the stakes were too high to remain idle when the NRA was being
castigated for actually doing something mostly right. Senator Craig's
very toughminded strategy, in a narrowly divided Senate, an effort that
was both mischaracterized and smeared, in good part due to your
providing a stage for intemperate remarks by ill-informed individuals
and groups, prompted me to begin savaging your efforts as much as I
could. THIS YEAR, OF ALL YEARS, is not the one for mutual suspicion and
internecine warfare amongst 2A groups. I am actually heartened to see
your partial retraction of the Craig Amendment analysis posted on KABA
earlier today.
Not that it means all that much considering my earlier viciousness, I'd
still like to take a moment and personally apologize to you for some
vile remarks I made about you on THR today, and implicitly in the
comments section of KABA. Mr. Shamaya, I am sorry. Please accept my
apology. I like to think that like myself, you have learned an enduring
lesson today about shooting from the lip.
Sincerely,
Eric Jensen, aka Boats on THR and elsewhere gun related.