Assault Weapons Are Bad for Your iPhone and Other Living Things
If it’s a day ending in Y, the progs must have their panties in a wad about something. Today, it’s an iPhone app from the NRA. You’re going to love the over-the-top screechiness of TechCrunch’s headline:
NRA’s New First-Person Shooter For Ages 4+ Profits From Assault Weapons Upgrades
NRA! First-person shooter! Children! Profits! Assault weapons!
I’m not sure it’s possible to fit any more proggie boogie men into a single headline. I mean, did you see they mentioned profits in there? They must get all skeevy just thinking about those.
The lede graf is just as (ahem) loaded:
The National Rifle Association must have a media mole inside their executive team directing the organization to conjure up the most incendiary policies imaginable. Today, the NRA released a mobile first-person shooter game for Apple’s iOS, suitable for children as young as 4 years old. Just in case that didn’t offend enough people, children can purchase military-grade assault weapons for the price of a pack of gum, if a simple pistol doesn’t satisfy their young trigger finger.
Gregory Ferenstein goes on — and on — like that for a few more grafs, even using the word “profiteer” at one point, I kid thee not. But the very first comment defuses the whole thing:
This is sickening… Damn you NRA…. C’mon really? Only an iOS version?
Android owners must be up in arms.
Not the best FPS in the world, but the game is enjoyable. Think I’ll buy all the in-game weapons, because screw hippies.
Think Progress, the most misnamed site on the ‘net, has a piece that falsely claims that the NRA program has “coffin shaped” targets. Brazen lie, really, they are just abstract silhouette targets reminescent of the IPSC target adopted to avoid claims of using humanoid targets.
… and to continue Mr. Roberts’ point, why would ThinkProgress even imagine “coffin-shaped targets”?
Is the idea that wicked NRA death-mongers hate the funeral industry?
Shouldn’t the thing they imagine be minorities or babies or something, not coffins?
Even from within their own deeply ignorant narrative it doesn’t make any sense.
(And, horror!
After all the talk from the Left that Video Games Totally Aren’t The Problem, It’s Real Guns [they got half that right], there’s hyperventilating about being able to get an “assault rifle” in a video game.
Someone should tell these guys about Call of Duty; they’ll have a heart attack.)
Sigivald, it stopped being funny long ago that they can’t get their story straight … and never get called on it.