Posted on 03/05/2018 7:29:38 PM PST by Simon Green
By now, we get it. We know that Shannon Watts doesn’t like guns. In and of itself, there’s nothing wrong with that. Lots of people don’t like or care about firearms in any way, shape, or form. Kind of like how some don’t care about sports.
What sets Shannon apart from so many others, however, is that while she doesn’t like guns, she’s convinced people should listen to her opinion on the topic. This despite not understanding the first thing about them except they give her the vapors.
Take this tweet from Shannon:
Now, if you don’t know anything about firearms, that’s a scary looking assault rifle…only, it’s not. It’s a Ruger Precision Rimfire .22 bolt action. It’s literally the least scary firearm anyone could own.
To be sure, people took her to task over this one. They should have.
But what’s really important here isn’t what people said to Shannon. It’s really not. What’s important is that this illustrates so much of the problem with gun grabbers and their perpetual attempts to regulate guns. Their issue isn’t so much about the function of a firearm, but its looks.
For example, when was the last time you saw a politician standing there with a Mini-14 or an M1A using that as an example of a firearm we need to tightly regulate?
They don’t do it. After all, those rifles look an awful lot like your traditional hunting rifles, and they’re not nearly as scared of those guns as they are the proverbial “ghost gun with a .30 caliber magazine clip,” or something like that. More importantly, however, is they don’t think you will be as scared of those guns.
Shannon picked that particular gun because it’s scary looking. It has an M-Lok rail system like a so-called assault rifle, and it has a Picatinny scope base like many evil black rifles, and it has a magazine that’s a little too long for her tastes, so it must be an evil rifle.
But it’s a bolt-action .22 for crying out loud.
It doesn’t matter. Most of the Moms Demand Action crowd, like Shannon, don’t really understand the items they are pushing to regulate. They don’t feel like they need to understand them. They figure they know all they need to know via talking points and Salon articles. What more do they need to know, right?
Meanwhile, we understand what a barrel shroud does. We understand that a phrase like “.30 caliber magazine clip” makes no blasted sense. We understand the items being discussed and we have a working knowledge of what they can and can’t do.
As such, this particular rifle doesn’t look scary to us. It’s got some tactical-like features on a precision rifle chambered in a caliber that’s really too small to use for anything but punching holes in paper or taking on small game like squirrels or rabbits. That’s it.
We don’t get worked up over the looks of a rifle because we understand the basic reality that the looks don’t mean jack.
From there, we understand a lot more about guns such as how laws–particularly laws over “scary looking” rifles–accomplish nothing at all.
In a way, though, I’m glad Shannon doesn’t know this. Her ineptitude is always good for a laugh if nothing else.
OMG a bolt action .22! BAN HAMMER!!!
The bottom line is we shouldn’t surrender any guns based on the opinions of idiots.
“...the looks don’t mean jack...”
Except when its a Hi-point. Dang that’s ugly. It works but its ugly.
The .22 is the most deadly gun ever produced when it comes to number of deaths among the civilian population.
I am really out of the loop. Who is Shannon Watts? And why should I listen to her.
That picture makes her look like about a 7 hot, 8 crazy on the matrix.
Shannon Watts is founder of Mom’s Demand Action gun grabbers. That group was essentially sucked into billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety—more gun grabbers.
I believe you mean that that the WWII M1 Garand is a .30-06
round. The M1A is a civilian version of the M-14 which fires a 7.62mm round ie .308. You are correct that the .30 cal round is a large caliber than the .223.
I was gonna say the same thing? Who the hell is that and why should I care?
It’s really sad in a way, if you want to look at it that way, that ship sailed a long, long time ago.
By that I mean firearm confiscation. Disarmament. Maybe it would have worked in the 1930s or up until the 1950s, right after the “Big One”, people trusted government, supported government; Americans were (pretty much) culturally and historically united, ethnically homogenous, today virtually none of that is true. The toothpaste isn’t going back in the tube now. She is completely delusional, poor dear.
What difference does it make?
They also believe that guns can do magical things, like "an AR15 can sink a battleship", and other truisms like that.
Shannon Watts, aka Gun Control Barbie.
Mom’s Demand Action, kinda sounds like a granny porn site. How about Mom’s Impugning Legal Firearms, MILF for short.
That reminds me. Got to look into a can for my Ruger 22/45 Lite.
I guess Shannon is a few watts short of sanity. Even Thomas Edison wouldn’t hit on her.
By the way, who is she? Another 15 seconds of famous by proxy (Bloomturd)?
This broad really should get into the porno industry.
At least she’d be remembered for her idiocy.
(People still giggle when they hear the name, “Ron Jeremy.”)
(AKA: “The Hedgehog”)
Best gun ever. My dad got a bunch of old Springfield Armory 30-06 bolt rifles back in the 60’s. I took two and had the heavy military stock removed, the sights removed, the bolt heated and bent, then ground down to clear a scope. New light cherry burled wood stock. Best deer rifle out in the open at 200 plus yards ever!. I use a 30-30 for woods and close shots.
I had a .22 Bolt Action Rifle when I was eight years old.
It wasn’t black though. It had a nice varnished wooden Stock.
She is a "little mother" so that takes the hotness down several notches.
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