Guns & Ammo is feeling the backlash from Dick Metcalf’s editorial last week. Metcalf has been terminated effective immediately, and Editor Jim Bequette will be stepping down in advance of his January 1st retirement.
From the announcement:
I made a mistake by publishing the column. I thought it would generate a healthy exchange of ideas on gun rights. I miscalculated, pure and simple. I was wrong, and ask for your forgiveness.
And for what? Are we so thin-skinned and hypersensitive as a culture that we can’t brook a little disagreement now and then?
Yes, Metcalf stepped in it. Yes, his article was rife with errors and bordered on incoherence. Yes, it was a little offensive. Does that justify calling him a traitor, or a communist, or other unprintable things? The sheer childishness and incivility borders on the surreal.
Yes, the Brady Campaign made a big deal of it. No, it’s not giving them any succor they didn’t already have. Continued...
