If the Boston Globe Likes Him...

The Boston Globe magazine had this stellar profile of a "reasonable" gun control advocate. The slick picture of John Rosenthal on the page with his over-under 12 gage is supposed to get you all warm over his concern with "hunter's rights."

The question I have is, if the Boston Globe defines him as a "reasonable" gun control advocate, how does he appear to the rest of the country? Well like a gun grabber of course.

Rosenthal himself was a gun owner long before he was a gun crusader. In his 20s, he built a house in Waitsfield, Vermont, where a friend introduced him to shooting clay targets, which he added to a list of outdoor pursuits that included kayaking, skiing, and sailing. "It's a Zen sport," he says. "If you aim, you miss."

Zen sport?

Central to AHSA's mission is a national legislative agenda that includes closing loopholes that let criminals purchase weapons at gun shows, banning military-style assault weapons, requiring training for gun owners, and pushing for issues like wildlife conservation that Rosenthal says the NRA has neglected.

The NRA has been neglecting wildlife conservation is relative to gun control how? And there's that little word "banning." Pushing for the way of Massachusetts.

This is nothing more than another BG propaganda piece trying to push huntersandshooters.org as a "reasonable" gun control group. The usual argument, "we don't want to stop hunters, we just want to stop the gun violence." Nothing like another rich guy deciding on who has the right to protect themselves. Oh, but that can't be part of the issue. I mean:

Rosenthal is known as many things - but a gun enthusiast isn't one of them. His biggest claim to fame, in fact, may be the 252-foot-long billboard he owns along the Mass Pike in Boston that has for years featured the faces of children killed by gun violence. Its current incarnation reads "Welcome To Massachusetts: You're More Likely To Live Here" - a reference to the state's rate of handgun fatalities, the lowest in the nation.

Yes, Massachusetts, where in order to hunt you have to go through the same procedures that a person that carries concealed has to go through. And then the local constabulary can still decide you don't have any reason to own a gun. That's what the rest of the country wants.

Bullshit in a large steaming pile.