Dingus with a gun disarmed
Charles sends us a link to the New York Times “The Gun Report” which recounts the discussion between dingus Heidi Yewman, who we discussed last week, and her editor, Michele Kort at Ms. Magazine, because “gun blogs” had discovered her series of articles about how she was an untrained gun owner and endangering everyone within at least 25 yards of her;
What was Kort’s solution to this dilemma? Incredibly, it was to kill the rest of Yewman’s series. “I don’t think I should post the next two installments of this—they’ll only fire up the troops again, and we’re just not equipped to handle this on our blog,” Kort wrote. When I reached out to Kort, suggesting that Ms. had allowed itself to be censored by Second Amendment absolutists, she would not respond on the record. Suffice it to say that Ms. disagrees with this assessment. But I don’t see how you could view it in any other way. Ms. published something the N.R.A.-types didn’t like; they responded by bullying Ms. online, and Ms. folded.
N.R.A. 1, Ms. Magazine, 0. Here is today’s report.
Um, yeah, no, the NRA didn’t defeat Ms. Yewman or her magazine – common sense beat her. All of us who are in the least bit controversial and incite enemies has had our addresses posted on the internet – that’s why some of us have guns and CCW permits. It hasn’t affected us or our public opinions in the least. The point remains, and the NRA has always said, that gun owners need to be responsible and learn how to use the tool with which they’ve chosen to defend themselves.
Ms. Yewman was a huge threat to her community. I, for one, feel safer knowing that she gave up the the idiot point that she was trying to make. No one I know has ever bought a gun without knowing how to load it or fire it effectively. Yewman thought that by becoming her perception of the stereotypical brainless gun owner that she was making a legitimate point, when if fact, she was making our point – gun owners need to be responsible or go home. If the NRA won anything, and if the NRA had anything to do with Ms. canceling the series, they got one careless gun owner off the streets with her gun.
By the way, the NRA didn’t send me the article and demand that I make it the Big Issue last week, one of my readers sent the article, like they send everything I write about here. So suck it, New York Times.
Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists
Thank God. That woman is a walking Charlie Foxtrot.
What a tool, to put it in perspective some dumb ass who has never driven can go out and buy a Porche and a case of scotch. Then they can demand because that they can’t drive and have no control over their drinking no one should buy cars or alcohol.
Gentlemen, target acquired. This is on “The Gun Report”comments section…This douchenugget ‘Joe G’ is talking smack. He apparently feels that because he ‘knows some combat vets’ he can denigrate our service. Go leave him some love, and please remind him that until he steps up, he can leave the snark at the door.
****Joe G, Houston
“I command a reserve unit. Noncombatant but every one of us a sheepdog.”
I’m not a veteran but most of the combat vets I know would describe that as being “in the rear with the gear”. I guess everyone gets to be special and legendary in their own minds.***
Gentlemen, target acquired. This is on “The Gun Report”comments section…This douchenugget ‘Joe G’ is talking smack. He apparently feels that because he ‘knows some combat vets’ he can denigrate our service. Go leave him some love, and please remind him that until he steps up, he can leave the snark at the door.
****Joe G, Houston
“I command a reserve unit. Noncombatant but every one of us a sheepdog.”
I’m not a veteran but most of the combat vets I know would describe that as being “in the rear with the gear”. I guess everyone gets to be special and legendary in their own minds.***
It appears the HuffPo is going to continue the idiocy!!
So will there be a follow up article about how she was bullied by the gun lobby?
That’s what the article looks like to me!
In all fairness, publishing her address was beyond the pale. But my goodness, those people are whiny little bastards.
NR–was it beyond the pale when those douchetools in NY published the addresses of LEGAL, RESPONSIBLE gun owners/permit holders?
Yup, but then again, nobody here got their marching orders from the VRWC or the NRA. They saw teh stoopid, they called her out on it, and they got butthurt over it, so they took their gun and went home.
But don’t think for a second they won’t try somewhere else to push their little agenda, moderated commentary or not.
Yes it is obvious to her that she was bullied by a lobby, because if no one would oppose what she was doing on the grounds it was completely reckless and stupid. Of course someone as cynical as me believes that she had no intention of finishing her report, because being “bullied” is a bigger story than being a complete moron.
@8 – no different than publishing CCW addresses. They can’t have it both ways.
The sad thing was that I tried to comment three times about the poor ethics of Ms. Yewman, who is a member of an anti-gun lobbying group and boardmember of said group: http://gunvictimsaction.org/boards-of-directors/heidi-yewman-vancouver-washington/ and then knowing that I tried to comment on how the laws are written in her state (my state as well, good ol’Washington state) with links to the respective code. They never appeared and instead were placed in moderation hell. The editorial staff of Ms. even edited attempts by folks to mention this ethical lapse by Ms. Yewman on the FB link from Ms. Magazine as well.
Overall this story was pure BS and in my mind very similar to the Dateline/Ford Trucks Blow up story. An agenda driven piece that showed serious lack of ethical review and a serious lack of journalistic integrity to talk all about the issues required to get both a CCW in WA state and to purchase a firearm.
Charles: Point of correction. It was GM Dateline went after for the side saddle tanks exploding.
Correction: “Supposedly” exploding. They wired the truck up with explosives and detonated them something like 1.3221 seconds before “impact” from the other vehicle.
Potatos, Potatoes. Same thing when we are talking about doing the ethical and integrity filled choice to say, “I am a member of a gun control group named the ‘Gun Victims Action of America’ and wanted to really see how easy it was to get a gun in America” vs what she actually wrote which didn’t say a single thing about being a board member of a gun control group. Hell, even Faux News admits when they report on stories about their overlords who owns them and who is potentially controlling them for editorial content.
Regardless of how it happened, the residents of Washington state are safer if she actually sends that Glock back to the gun store where she bought it. Something tells me that she will keep up the ridiculous “experiment” with the intent of selling the story to some other publisher.
@Bobo
I don’t feel safer, because what will happen if this derp has her gun stolen? Dollars to donuts she isn’t storing it in a safe or sane manner. Also, remember this is the state where we have had the Seattle Police Chief now Obama Drug Czar Richard Gil Kerlikowske had his own service fire arm stolen from his car back in 2005 and to date we don’t know if that gun has been recovered. I would bet you that she still has it in her possession.
So what is Yewman going to do with the gun now? Flush it down the toilet? Given to an Occutard? Or continue to be a Gunowner?
The NRA is named as The Big Bad Bully of Teh Stooopid Articles because they are the largest most visible gun rights organization. Not necessarily the best GR organization, but inarguably the largest. And therefore the organization most easily picked on.
Sheesh! Get over yourselves, Heidi and MS. You brought this on yourselves with your unthinking untrained dumbassery.
@9 and 11: Since I’m no longer on a mobile device, it’s easy for me to answer.
Yes, it was beyond the pale when those papers release names and addresses of gun owners. I’m of the opinion that if anything happened to the people on that list, the editorial boards and the reporters who ran the story are legal to hunt from then on. I think there were better ways to play Slap The Bitch with her other than publishing her address.
Serviceable, CLP’d, loaded and close.
Very simple.
How was she legally able to get a CCW permit without knowing that? The classes teach that. Did somebody in Law Enforcement not do their job? Did she commit a crime?
@22 In Washington State there is no requirement for a CCW and to take classes. Just show up, submit your paperwork for a CCW, pay the processing fee and wait the mandated 30 days (minimum) for your paperwork to return. Which is what gets all the liberals gun grabbers up in arms is that there is no requirement for class room time. However, as I argued once at one of those stupid starbucks rallies they had, there is no requirement in WA state for a driver to have completed any level classroom time prior to being issued a driver’s license. Just show up to the DMV, take the written and take the practical and pay your fee. Then if you pass both, you get a driver’s license. Our state is pretty liberal with regards to licenses in some forms and pretty restrictive in others. Still as I mentioned earlier, she is a massive level of derp since she didn’t research the laws and in her article at Ms. Magazine glosses over things like the fact that by law if you have a valid CCW, then by rights you don’t have to wait the mandatory background check time. The idea being that you are a safe “risk” since your background check is already valid at the state level. You still need to complete a federal level check, because federal law trumps state law in that situation. Then there is her BS statement about ATF 4473 and it took 7 mins to fill out. Anyone who has bought a number of guns, knows that you need to read the form because there are a couple of questions which should be “Yes” but the feds are looking for “NOs” because of legealized word fucks in the questions. Let alone knowing where to find the three or four places to sign your life away. Even worst though is that a basic google/bing search of her home town would have shown two that specialize in CCW requirements and there are a slew of hunter safety courses that could have taught her the basics of how… Read more »
From the NYT article:
“Addarren Ross, an 18-year-old rapper who went by the name Lil Snupe, was shot and killed in Winnfield, La., early Thursday. Officers responded to calls of a shooting at the Maplewood Apartments, where they found Ross shot twice in the torso. Police are searching for a person of interest. The rapper had been signed by Meek Mill’s Dreamchasers imprint late last year.”
I’m sure that’s a major loss to society right there.
@24-Philly, I’m not so sure it’s even considered a loss by his family!
@25
Val and Hondo and Ex-Hack are gonna die laughing I can prove the Dweedle Dee and Dweedle Dumb lied……. You know our friend from last night……
@25 I sent Val the goods on last nights moron…LMAO
She may be an idiot with a firearm but she shouldn’t a typical left/libtard and project that upon everybody else– golly, they must be idiots like me so they shouldn’t have evil guns!
@12 – Journalistic integrity!!! Wow, that is a GREAT oxymoron, like cherry tart. Sadly, you didn’t mean it as a joke….
Uhhhh – Dingus with a Gun might still be around. Quick look at MS FB page and the post about it – there is a comment from editor Kort. Supposedly HuffPost is gonna pick up the rest of the series . . .
Her story was also a bunch of lies.
Her comments about the permit process didn’t match up with the actual process in her home state.
I still don’t understand how any grown adult can be bullied on-line. Can someone explain this to me?
@32-Pave Pusher, I dunno about that. I’ve seen some shit on these pages from some of these folks that would have intimidated me. Thankfully, it was aimed at the miscreants (or their dumbass defenders).
@32 What the “bullying” ammounted to was the dingus being called a dingus in various ways. I say that it’s better that she hear it from us, as harsh as we may be, than for her to hear it from the investigating officer, standing over the body of her victim.
It looks like Huffington Post is going to pay her to continue the charade. I recommend some type of Kevlar protective garment to anyone going to a Starbucks in Washington for the next few weeks.
USMCBRIT1, bullying requires an ability to apply physical force. Unless people are posting her home address with direct or implied threats, there is no bullying. If there are such threats, they should be reported to police and handled throught the legal system, (with appropriate self-defense actions taken, of course) thus nullifying the bullying.
That’s what adults do.
In short, what seems to have been called “bullying” was actually her assertions and claims being refuted with facts and evidence, and herself being challenged to defend those claims in light of said offered counters. That is in no way “bullying”, and allowing any side to attempt such a tactic denigrates real bullying.
@36 & 37 Pave Pusher-I agree. If there are illegalities occurring, they should be reported. But just because someone doesn’t like content, doesn’t mean they’re being bullied. Any word can be “cheapened” in it’s meaning by it’s overuse or misuse.
It should be “The Onion” instead of the “HuffPost” that picks up this “story”.
Ms Yewman claims that some zipperhead posted her physical address and her husbands name on the blog comments section and that she was getting death threats. However, I call shenanigans on that since they heavily moderate the comments section, I believe that they were trying to show gun owners as fools. So while the rest of us try to debate logically and get shut down, but they let some pinhead through with crazy coming out of his mouth?
When someone writes that she might shoot herself from her lack of training.This is a taken as a death threat. A antigunner does not let common sense and facts stand in their way. Joe
@40–while I disagree with posting of personal information not readily available, seems to me if you had asked her a few months back about the NY paper publishing the names, addresses, etc. of NY CCW/permit holders, she would have been all fine and dandy with that. Sauce, goose, gander, shit like that.
Then again, it’s pretty frightening what is available about an individual online for the simple cost of an Intelius search.
Was her address actually posted on line? From a moderated site?? If so, then her argument is with the moderators of the site.
If someone attempted to post personal information about her but it was caught in moderation and not posted, then the system worked to protect her. So what is she whining about?
The whole personal information thing… not for posting folks adresses or phone numbers under most circumstances and this is one of them. However, the fact that she readily identified herself using her own name, as a person who went out and purchased a gun, has no idea how to safely carry or operate it, and the fact that she is going to openly carry it was setting hersefl up for failure.
I’m sorry, but her information (if) that was posted (never saw it myself either), is all obtainable via public records searches. She placed herself out there as a public figure… not even close to some law abiding citizen quietly sitting at home, bothering no one and suddenly finding their name, adress and the fact they havea concealed carry permit published in a News Paper. She was seeking attention and got it, the other?
The whole personal information thing… not for posting folks addresses or phone numbers under most circumstances and this is one of them. However, the fact that she readily identified herself using her own name, as a person who went out and purchased a gun, has no idea how to safely carry or operate it, and the fact that she is going to openly carry it was setting herself up for failure.
I’m sorry, but her information (if) that was posted (never saw it myself either), is all obtainable via public records searches. She placed herself out there as a public figure… not even close to some law abiding citizen quietly sitting at home, bothering no one and suddenly finding their name, address and the fact they have a concealed carry permit published in a News Paper. She was seeking attention and got it, the other?
@43: The only place I saw her PII being posted was on Ms. Magazine’s Facebook post on this article.
I’m still waiting for my e-mails to Ms. Kort and Ms. Yewman to be returned. I’ve been posting updates to my attempt to get an answer as to WHY multiple comments which I KNOW are not mean or over the line including one of my own have NOT been published. And now I have the Seattle City .GOV and the Los Angeles City .GOV, possibly the PA’s office looking at my blog. I’ve also been calling out Ms Magazine and Ms. Kort on Twitter asking them when they will respond.
To date I still haven’t gotten an answer to me e-mails. And Ms. Magazine has been selectively approving comments, so I put up another one which I screen shotted and posted in my post on this whole incident.
@47 I did some perusing of MS mag’s sight, and read some of Korts answers given on the blog, and you are right. That’s exactly what they’re doing: moderating comments, not returning any form of communications, and sic-ing the cops or any other horsepower they can get on anyone who “threatened” them. I’m female, and a gun owner. I posted a very polite, albeit concerned, comment on the blog, and sent Kort an email, asking to be put in touch with Yewman. My comment was moderated, and I received no reply to the email.
For a bunch of strong, independent feminists, they sure are a bunch of running-scared little girls.
That’s supposed to be “…MS mag’s SITE…” Ugh. Sorry.
BTW, Yewman had a friend MELT THE GUN DOWN:
http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/heidi-yewman-gun-control-concealed-weapon-ms-magazine-second-amendment/51dec3fe78c90a4ed200002a
She is tremendously relieved to know that her gun will NEVER be used in a crime or be the cause of a tragic accident!