The Missoulian ran with a report published last month in Mother Jones about Mary McFate, a gun control lobbyist accused by handgun prohibition groups as a spy for the NRA.
This looks pretty preliminary on the evidence side. Mike Jamison says she appears to be an NRA spy but the report offers few details. Did Mary snoop for the gun crowd? Well, I don’t know and honestly, neither do you. Jamison’s update on the situation simply says McFate, a private consultant, got involved in some litigation back east that involved one of her clients, the NRA. That’s hardly a bristling indictment. She’s been a board member on CeaseFirePA, a national group dedicated to stop the plan. I’d say it’s equally plausible that the gun nazis simply want to throw any moderates under the bus. But does that even really matter? Let’s say for a minute that it’s true:
What I would pose is do we really want to entrust our safety on public land to a group that can’t spot a grouse in a room full of deer? Say I’m getting charged by a sow–now I got this .44 that can take that angry momma down in two rounds. One to the shoulder, and then a torso shot when she raises up. But I’m supposed to trust my life to a can of chemicals and rogue chance on the advice of a group of hippies that can’t see for several decades a mole in their midst? Ha!
If you haven’t been watching the issue, this is really about a plan by the Department of Interior to allow regular law-abiding Americans to protect themselves with arms in National Parkland. The public comment period is ongoing, but certain anti-gun lobbies have been getting their lawyers together to challenge the law when it inevitably passes review. Now they say McFate has been reporting their movements back to the NRA. Well, tough beans… if it’s even true.
I can spot a feel-good peacenik from 2 miles away, let alone across the board table.
The hippies, menawhile, don’t fail to throw their agenda into the coverage, saying the proposed rule change would create a confusing patchwork of juristdiction. Not really. It’s pretty easy to pack in Yellowstone or any backcountry. The only confusing thing is when Forest Service land ends and Park Service begins. Not to mention the goddamn Canadians.
But I guess the hippies driving their Priuses between Gardiner and Cooke City want peace of mind that their ain’t any “crazy Montanans” packing heat in the wilderness around them. I forgot the Bill of Rights protects false security. That’s what kept those towers from falling in New York, isn’t it boys?
