Judging from Post editor Sally Buzbee’s introduction to the project, as well as from my own reporting, the paper talked to dozens of survivors and family members and weighed the enormous range of their opinions about this issue to craft the feature. It was so much better than I was expecting that it initially blinded me to the way it was bad. But bad in a kind of routine way: The media, as well as certain kinds of activists, believe we need to be presented with graphic, grisly evidence to grasp what are simply facts. This grisly evidence, they posit, will change hearts and minds.
It will not. Upwards of three-quarters of American voters support almost every commonsense gun law. And we know why political leaders haven’t heeded their call: the gun lobby, and its disgusting political servants. But the Post tried, anyway, with its multimedia “Terror on Repeat” project. I won’t impugn these journalists’ motives. I’ll assume they are good. I’ll just tell you what I saw, and why I would like to spare people seeing the same thing. Especially survivors.
Well, “all” explicitly has to include “those owned by the police and other military/government forces” as well.
I would absolutely love to limit the police to no SBR’s, no machine guns, no high capacity magazines, etc., etc. just like they want to apply to us. I assure you; I am absolutely not being sarcastic. They don’t need that shit. Our cops are way too fucking trigger happy and we enable them by giving them all the toys they want.
Eh, sbrs and sbs’ are only a thing because the original MFA was going to ban pistols too and wanted to close a loophole. They’re not any more or less dangerous than any other firearm.
That said, I’d be down for disarming cops in this fantasy scenario. We’ve militarized our police force to an absurd degree.