Posted on 12/13/2013 9:59:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
THERE THEY were, just below Martha Stewart and Paula Deen and Allure in the magazine rack at the supermarket: the gun periodicals.
I bought three.
Back at the place where I was staying — this was in upstate New York, a week ago — I pored over the ads and the editorial content, trying to understand what they were saying, and to whom.
First, they want you to buy a gun. It will probably not be your first gun; it will be an addition to, and an improvement on, the gun or guns you already own. It may deliver “precision firepower,” and allow you to “be victorious.” It will fit almost any need, including “tactical applications.” It may allow you to “wield the power of an entire arsenal.” If it’s a rifle, its optics can help to “deliver consistently repeatable accuracy at extreme distances and in stressful situations.” If it’s a .357 Mag six-shooter, it will “deliver the message loud and clear.” If it’s a handgun, it needs to be light enough to bring with you any time you leave home, “where presumably [you] have more substantial firepower at the ready than a concealable handgun.” If you’re a woman, you can get something lethal in pink.
Then there are the accessories. You may be “overseas on a covert op or here at home as part of a tactical team,” in which case you’ll want a silencer, to help you “get it done — quick and quiet!” Consider purchasing 30-round magazines for your Kalashnikov pattern firearms, or ammunition that “will not clog when piercing thick or heavy clothing.” You may want to order a day planner called “Hidden Agenda,” which has a storage compartment for your firearm and additional magazines. And don’t forget to stock up on concealed-carry underwear....
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
A figment of her imagination!
That is the part that got me laughing. To in any way infer or imply that normal clothing will protect you from a an expanding bullet fired from any modern firearm is absolute stupidity. I guess she was thinking that full metal jacketed bullets are made for that purpose. To say that this person is gun/ballistic ignorant is a massive understatement.
I dare say that the overwhelming majority of violent criminals will NOT read gun publications, because they are functionally illiterate. She mentions Zimmerman, what part of “NOT GUILTY” does this idiot not understand??? Also, no mention of a handgun’s utility when confronted by a RAPIST. Wonder why that is? Wonder if she INVENTED all those “quotes” ??? This deserves a five-alarm Puke Alert!!!
Her father shot himself so therefore guns are bad.
I wonder how the article would look if he had decided, instead, to slam into a bridge abutment at 100 MPH.
She forgot to tell us the magazine titles.
She forgot to write down the page and issue numbers for her quotes.
The “ad” style photograph at the top of her essay is not an ad at all, it's a Photoshop done by a Boston Globe staffer.
The Boston Globe is no stranger to lying, plagiarism, hyperbole and general all around bull.....er...scat.
As if this “journalist” actually read those actual articles and sentences.
yeah, suuuure she did.
Anything to fit the picture and frame the “discussion”.
You can hang onto that hand cannon too. Not me.
Joan, Joan, Joan, lie, lie, lie.
Ms. Wickersham parades her ignorance as though she were streaking it.
Most folks know that a "six-shooter" (a rarely-used term) is part of a subset of "handguns". Ms. Wickersham is so arrogantly clueless.
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All I can say is “WOW”.
First, Paula Deen doesn't HAVE a magazine anymore.
She may have been on the cover of one, but she's ruined for life.
Second, are we to believe that in a Boston supermarket that there are MULTIPLE "gun magazines" in the check out aisle?
Or even on the shelf?
When I think of Massachusetts, I do NOT think of "gun enthusiasts". Quite the opposite.
I’ve seen the occasional gun mag down on the bottom shelves in the magazine section at MA supermarkets. She doesn’t say they were in the checkout lane rack, just the “magazine rack”.
Small potatoes compared to the other mistakes she makes, but then, as with so many Northeastern lib papers, making up the entire story while sitting at their desk is practically a tradition (cf the creation of Disco and so many more).
Pretty sure silencers are illegal to advertise, and no ammo ad I’ve ever seen talked about not “clogging” when hitting clothing.
First of all, I’m sorry the author lost her father to what I believe was a self inflicted gunshot wound. There was no clarification if this was suicide ,an accident or other. Secondly, I don’t believe I’ve heard of ‘gun periodicals’. Maybe they’ve been around for decades by a different description. I haven’t seen these at Safeway or Luckys or Albertson Grocery Stores. Have you?
Thirdly, her lively descriptions (quick and quiet!)now have me interested in finding these magazines or websites. I feel like using John Kerry’s classic quote of the amateur “I’m going to get me a hunting magazine!”.
>> trying to understand what they were saying, and to whom.
Kinda’ like women’s magazines... seriously, WTF is with those magazines for women???
So her father committed suicide and that means all guns are bad? Maybe she should take some of the blame for that.
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