How This Anti-Gun Group is Trying to Mislead the Masses
By Tom Knighton | 7:29 PM | July 02, 2026
My father used to say, "If you can't impress them with intelligence, baffle them with bulls**t." No, he did not include the asterisks. While he used it more as an accusation than as advice for life, the basic idea behind this, at least in his mind, was that if you spew enough gobbledygook at people, they won't realize you're basically trying to pull one over on them.
Earlier this week, I took a shot at Everytown because they're trying to peddle nonsense. What they're engaging in is a case of using deliberately manipulated data to try to make a point.
And, as Lee Williams notes at The Gun Writer, they're also trying to baffle people with BS.
After reading Everytown’s fictitious work: “Assault Weapons and High-Capacity Magazines,” which was recently updated and featured in their sister publication, The Smoking Gun, under a sexy headline: “New Report: Assault Weapons Lead to Surge in Mass Shooting Victims,” it became clear exactly what Everytown is using to regain the public’s trust.
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