Washington Free Beacon writer Stephen Gutwoski on Tuesday exposed the insanity of a New York Times op-ed complaining about all the guns in the National Rifle Association’s gun museum in Fairfax, Virginia. Francis X Clines whined on Monday, “There are thousands of ingenious, gleaming rifles and handguns in displays about America's gun-rich history of colonialism, immigration, expansionism and vigilante justice.”
Gutowski quipped, “Clines expressed outrage at a cardboard cutout of John Wayne displayed in the exhibit, referencing it several times in his editorial. He said the cutout, which depicts a gun-toting Wayne with a grin full of ‘menace,’ promoted fantasies about killing ‘bad guys’ for American gun owners.”
Gutowski, who previously wrote for the Media Research Center, added:
"The bad guys in the movies never fully understood that the menace behind Wayne's grin (‘Whoa, take ‘er easy there, Pilgrim') meant he was about to deliver blazing fantasies of triumphant gunfire that would leave them dead in the dust. It's no wonder modern Florida legislators could not resist protecting actual shooters who draw and fire like John Wayne as guilt-free, ‘stand-your-ground' defenders."
Clines said "the cardboard fantasy of the good guy gunning down the bad guy is what makes the museum work as an enjoyable escape from the life-and-death reality of American gun carnage."
After complaining that the gun museum displays guns and blanks used in movies, Clines asked why there isn't a "stream of gripping films about the thousands of troubled Americans with easy access to guns who can lethally act out their darkest grievances on family and society day after day?"
But getting rid of Americans’s Second Amendment rights has always been a big goal of the New York Times. In 2015, the paper published a self-important front page editorial on the “moral outrage” that is lack of new gun control laws.
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