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Old January 21, 2019, 06:48 AM   #12
Bartholomew Roberts
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Meateater’s Editorial Director is Ben O’Brien - you may know him as the former marketing manager at Yeti who broke off the relationship with the NRA. Or you may know him as the head of a DemocraticPAC that spent $1.2 million to get Jon Tester re-elected. Or you might know him as a board member of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers - a group that also supported Tester (and a group quoted in Meateater’s most recent article on the effects of the government shutdown on hunting).

If some asks you if you support a ban on semi-autos, there’s a simple answer if you don’t - “No, I don’t support a ban on semi-autos.” Question asked and answered.

In his reply, Rinella starts with “I support the Second Amendment.” That’s literally the exact same phrase every politician who has proposed gutting the Second Amendment uses so it doesn’t tell us much. For all we know, the Second Amendment he supports is the collective rights view advocated by Justice Stevens.

He then changes the question to what he hunts with and states he prefers to use bolt-actions but he has friends who use semis and he gives them good-natured ribbing. In other words, he sidesteps the question of whether he supports semi-auto bans entirely. Why would he do that?

Semi-autos have existed since the late 19th century. Saying this technology shouldn’t be banned is hardly controversial except among people who don’t hunt or shoot at all.

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