- [This story is] a media feeding frenzy that is driven by a few individuals who never miss the opportunity to advance an anti-2nd Amendment agenda.
- Arizona state senator Lori Klein • Addressing claims she aimed a loaded gun at a reporter, which we touched on yesterday. Klein has disputed the reporter’s account of what transpired, claiming instead that the reporter asked to see the laser sight on her handgun, then sat down in front of the gun after she drew it. The reporter, Richard Ruelas, is sticking to his version of events. Setting aside the idea that criticizing somebody over reports they aimed a loaded gun at a reporter is an anti-2nd amendment posture (gun safety training is something the NRA takes very seriously, and they’re hardly moderates on the gun control debate), the explanation she’s giving, if true, doesn’t mitigate her wrongdoing. That she would keep her loaded (and safety-less) weapon aimed at the reporter for one second, even in the midst of an earnest misunderstanding, is beyond the pale — and we bet the vast majority of gun owners, responsible as they are, would agree. source