When did NBC start speaking for the NRA, and BlueCollarPerspective?
Last Sunday, a ‘Meet the Press’ journalist managed to make the gun advocates’ case for them, inadvertent though it may have been. He also made the case for our earlier BlueCollar blogs on the Sandy Hook killings, and assault weapon silliness.
While trying to make the point that gun laws should be expanded to make high-capacity rifle magazines illegal, in high drama he waved just such an item under the nose of an NRA CEO. But in D.C., where that show was being taped, it IS illegal to possess such an item…and David Gregory could now be charged for having it on the show!
His unwitting ‘felony’ may be the gun advocates’ dream argument. Piling laws on top of laws with little effect isn’t the answer; it only adds to the confusion (ask NBC’s Gregory, if he’s convicted in the future for his ‘dramatic effect’). And let’s go one step further – is it necessary to convict someone of a crime, when the magazine was in his possession… but the rifle needed to complete the combo was not? And what about intent?
If Gregory is charged, BlueCollar is curious to see if their defense uses the argument posed in our Dec 18 blog, “What ISN’T an assault weapon..?” We posed the question based on one very simple fact – without the presence of intent or action to do harm, a firearm (or accessory item such as a high-capacity magazine), is an inanimate object.
Action defines the object…it takes an assailant to make an ‘assault weapon’.
