Why the changing story on a new federal 'assault weapons' ban?

But why, I can't help but ask myself, the headlong retreat from calls for a new AWB, especially given the obvious fact of big media's fawning support of the idea?

In the wake of the atrocity of the murders of the Pittsburgh police officers, we have seen a growing effort to place a significant portion of the blame not on the murderer, but on gun rights advocates and "right wing" (whatever that means) commentators who, the theory goes, filled the killer's head with unfounded fears of an Obama-led gun grab, thus causing him to go off the rails. From the Brady Campaign's sanctimonious "The Gun Lobby's Rhetoric Has Consequences," to New York Times Columnist Charles M. Blow's "Pitchforks and Pistols" (and the sequel), the idea, apparently, is that the killer's actions are somehow a "consequence" of urgent warnings about the very real threat facing the Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms. [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. It's a bit long, especially if you watch the videos in their entirety, but I worked pretty hard on it, and I'd like to think it's worth your time.

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