Last month, Brady Campaign board member Heidi Yewman wrote a treacly, self-serving article for Ms. magazine entitled “My Month with a Gun.” Supposedly, she was going buy a gun and spend a month living like one of us, as if gun owners were a herd of smelly exotic animals. The article was meant to be a series, but Ms. chose not to publish any installments after the first. She collected the concluding parts in a Daily Beast article published today.
The whole thing is about as condescending as it sounds. Case in point:
Walking into the kitchen to refresh our drinks, I noticed my purse with the 9mm Glock still inside it. I’d forgotten to lock it up! Panic set in as I realized my teen son was playing videogames just 10 feet away. (…) I played two tennis matches with the gun in my backpack next to the court, and I went to three parties in homes where children played just feet from the pile of guests’ jackets and purses, including mine with the gun inside.
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