The Washington Post is an assault weapon. Unconvinced? Ask Mitt Romney…

Merriam Webster primarily defines ASSAULT as: ‘a violent physical or verbal attack’.

Merriam Webster primarily defines WEAPON as: ‘something used (as a club, knife, or gun) to injure, defeat, or destroy’. Defined secondarily: ‘a means of contending against another’.

A brick is an assault weapon. Ask Reginald Denny, the trucker who was nearly beaten to death during the Rodney King riots in Southern California in the ’90’s.

Senator Harry Reid is an assault weapon. Again, ask Mitt Romney (who, in August, pre-election, was accused of tax evasion by Reid – without Reid offering a shred of proof).

A nail file can be an assault weapon. Or a pillow.

So can a ’67 Oldsmobile Delmont 88.

The point is, the object doesn’t define itself as an assault weapon. The ACT of using it in an assaulting manner does.

Until then, it remains an unspoken slander, a pillow, an Oldsmobile, a nail file, an unwritten string of negative articles, a brick…

Or, yes, a Smith & Wesson.