Lethal Weaponization

In the grand scheme of things, this is a small story. It’s just about one guy in a country of hundreds of millions and a few guns in a nation flooded with them. But what it represents is something far broader. It’s the new way things work in Washington. DOJ Official Fired After Refusing to Restore Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights. “Oyer refused to add Gibson to the list, and was then asked if her position was ‘flexible.’ She said it was not. ‘He then essentially explained to me that Mel Gibson has a personal relationship with President Trump and that should be sufficient basis for me to make a recommendation and that I would be wise to make the recommendation,’ she said. ‘I literally did not sleep a wink that night because I understood that the position I was in was one that was going to either require me to compromise my strongly held views and ethics or would likely result in me losing my ability to participate in these conversations going forward.'” (That’s the basic choice facing everyone in the administration these days.) Sidenote: Isn’t it interesting that Trump is targeting campuses and protestors for acts of antisemitism but Mel Gibson is getting special treatment from him?