Salon.com > gun rights http://www.salon.com Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:20:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Don’t talk about gun control! http://www.salon.com/2012/12/14/dont_talk_about_gun_control/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/14/dont_talk_about_gun_control/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:50:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13125237 How many right-wing media voices were citing the shooting in Portland, Ore., this morning to trumpet the sanctity of gun rights and say we shouldn't even talk about gun control? How many of them were making this perverse argument at the very moment the Newtown, Conn., shooting was taking place? And how many of those voices are the same ones who, when it comes to other issues, decry "political correctness"?

The answers to these questions should be obvious: almost certainly, a lot of them. And that is a sign that for all the conservative histrionics decrying liberal "political correctness," the most powerful and most committed "p.c. police" in America are on the right -- specifically, those on the right who claim that any critical discussion of the limits of the Second Amendment must be suppressed because they insult the political ideology of conservatives.

This form of "political correctness" is so routinized that we barely recognize it as the censorship system that it truly is. And as mass shootings become a staple of American life, this system is now ubiquitous.

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