Slate tweets:
Kevin Williamson and National Review would rather nitpick over the relative violence of weapons of war than actually acknowledge the mass murder of school children with such guns.
These rifles are not “weapons of war.” There isn’t a military in the world of which I am aware that uses a 5.56mm semiautomatic rifle (which is what we are talking about here) as its standard issue.
But I’m not a global-military expert, and I’ve checked only the top 20. If somebody knows of a country that issues these so-called weapons of war to the people who fight its wars, do let me know.
A serious question for gun-control advocates: Why is it that you cannot simply stick to the facts rather than exaggerate what is under discussion? Don’t you think that if you had the better argument you wouldn’t need to make things up?