THE UNION-LEADER GOES AFTER GUN-CONTROL PROPONENTS’ “BULLYING” OF SEN. KELLY AYOTTE: “What is disgusting is deliberately mischaracterizing someone’s position for the purpose of portraying that person as a willing accomplice to murder. That has been the left’s strategy since Newtown. It is a testament to the Senate that a majority of its members, including Ayotte, did not cave to such bullying.” Hiding behind victims and the grieving is a sort of rhetorical “human shield” strategy, designed to block counterarguments with claims that disagreeing with the victims is mean.

Indeed. Related thoughts here.