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Guns and Ammo editor has the temerity to suggest that there may be a need for gun laws, loses job.

Courtesy of Slate:

Guns & Ammo editor Jim Bequette says he was hoping to generate a "healthy exchange of ideas on gun rights" when he decided to publish a column that veered ever-so slightly from the the usual from-my-cold-dead-hands rhetoric normally found in the pages of his magazine. It's safe to say that effort didn't go exactly as he had hoped.

After a swift and vocal backlash from readers and other Second Amendment enthusiasts, Bequette announced yesterday that he was stepping down immediately, and that the magazine was also cutting ties with the author of the piece in question, contributing editor Dick Metcalf. "I made a mistake by publishing the column," Bequette wrote in an apologetic letter to readers. "I thought it would generate a healthy exchange of ideas on gun rights. I miscalculated, pure and simple. I was wrong, and I ask your forgiveness."

So what did Dick Metcalfe do that was so wrong? He wrote this:

"I firmly believe that all U.S. citizens have a right to keep and bear arms, but I do not believe that they have a right to use them irresponsibly," Metcalf wrote. "And I do believe their fellow citizens, by the specific language of the Second Amendment, have an equal right to enact regulatory laws requiring them to undergo adequate training and preparation for the responsibility of bearing arms."

Clearly this guy does not clearly understand the 2nd Amendment as translated by gun fetishists who fantasize about the country being invaded by a brown skinned army or terrorists that can only be repelled by their private arsenal full of military style weaponry.

And clearly any attempt to dissuade them of that ridiculous concept, even from within, will be met with anger and viscious attacks from crazed gun nuts.

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