Heidi Yewman

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Civil Rights

Post Ridonkulous

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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Civil Rights

Heidi Yewman

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Heidi is a board member for the Brady Campaign. A few years ago, she decided to manufacture a controversy out of Starbucks’ non-policy gun policy. Starbucks refused to bow to the pressure, and they continue to allow patrons to carry in their restaurants.

A normal adult would look at that loss and say, “you win some, you lose some.” A normal adult would get on with her life. Not Heidi. There is something very troubling about her logic.

In an article for Ms. magazine, she outlines a plan to buy a gun and pursue absolutely no training. She admits with no real remorse that she doesn’t know how to tell whether it’s loaded or not. Even worse, she’s going to carry it on her person for the next month. The denouement of her article describes her sitting in a Starbucks location (note the clumsy attempt at irony) in this manner:

Today, they have a woman with absolutely no firearms training and a Glock on her hip sitting within arm’s reach of small children, her hands shaking and adrenaline surging.

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