Wired Magazine goes anti-gun...

[Ronin13]

I used to love this magazine, I had a subscription at one point, but after reading this thing they posted (can't quote all of it because it's interactive and what not) I'm no supporter anymore! [Mad]
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/ff-bullets-gun-violence/

AMERICA IS AWASH IN AMMUNITION. IF YOU WANT TO STOP GUN VIOLENCE, START WITH BULLETS
Guns don’t kill people; people don’tkill people; bullets killpeople. As the nation debates, again, the best way to curb gun violence, manyof the questions focus on the firearms themselves. But an equally importantconsideration is ammunition. Roughly 10 billion rounds are manufactured in the US each year, with a weight equal totwo Titanics. More to the point, it’s enough bullets to pump 32rounds into every man, woman, and child in America.
From the musket ball to the .45 Colt cartridge to the .223shells used in the Newtown massacre, the story of ammunition is in many ways afamiliar tale of technological progress, as bullets have become cheaper, easierto use, and often more deadly. But this engineering success has become a socialand moral crisis. Here’s a data-driven examination of the bullet: its variety,its spread, and the policies that might help curb its lethal consequences.
In other words- F*** Wired.

[KestrelBike]

I've felt for awhile that wired is run by a bunch of wetnoodled lib-nerds who love running stories on big government spying on us proles, but can't get over their liberal-education endoctination that the only thing protecting Americans in the end from those same threats is the 2A.

[Kraven251]

there goes another one.

[Diesel24]

Eff them!

[Rooskibar03]

I've been getting progressive vibes from Wired for sometime. This just confirms it. See ya.

[KestrelBike]

Just got my issue today that had this article (although i posted in this very thread a few days ago, I didn't actually read the OP lol, did a search before posting the one I found on their website and VOILA here I am).

I am cancelling their fucking bitch asses on Monday, the subscription being a gift from my mother be damned. Ronin is correct in that it's hard to gauge just how Anti-2A the article is because of the interactiveness, but here are some gems:

"12 Gauge: One of the firearms used in the Aurora movie theater shooting last year was a 12-guage shotgun made by remington. A similar weapon was used in the mass shooting at columbine high school in 1999" (hahaha and then they say that they cost $3.00 per round)

"9mm Luger: ... perhaps not surprisingly, the 9mm also kills more law enforcement officers than any other bullet"

"7.62x39mm : introduced in 1943, this is the world's most popular bullet for assault rifles and a go-to cartridge for the ak-47. Between 2002 and 2011, the 7.62x39mm bullet killed more law enforcement officers wearing body armor than any other caliber"

".40 s&w: ... it's a perenially popular round for buyers seeking "personal defense"" (the quotes on PD are the author's smug sarcasm)

".50bmg : a standard caliber for machine guns, the .50-caliber Browning was also one of the bullets that the Branch Davidians shot at FBI agents during a siege on their compound in 1993"

"Tax Bullets. Bullets are cheap: a box of 50 9mm luger rounds costs less than $20. One popular proposal, put forward by policy thinkers ranging from the late US senator moynihan to comedian chris rock, is to tax bullets at a rate that reflects their cost to society. It worked for cigarettes."

Basically, the author is a stupid f'in piece of s***.

[GlockDog47]

F-em they suck balls

[Jumpstart]

Conspiracy theories? Why is there no/ limited/ ammo on the shelves of retailers anymore? Something smells fishy in Denmark. Wired mag is an agent of something nefarious and dynamic happening. Just like Joe Biden calling State Reps in Colorado recently and vacationing here during the vote on guns in Colorado. It is all orchestrated, but we already knew that right?

[DHCO]

What is odd to me is that they take a very antigovernment stance on domestic spying, drone strikes, etc and now run articles wanting to concentrate all the guns in the hands of the government.

[HoneyBadger]

Wired is just as bad as Gawker Media. [pileoshit]

[sturn18]

Cancelling your subscription will do very little to change what Wired prints. Magazines make their money from advertising. Contact the advertisers and tell them that you will never use their products and encourage everybody you know to not use their products if they continue to support leftist publications. For those of us who don't get Wired, publish their list of advertisers so that more people can contact the businesses too.

[UrbanWolf]

Bullet fire themselves? And this is dangerous, the 2A didn't mention bullets, they are go around that a screw gun owners.

[KestrelBike]

Cancelling your subscription will do very little to change what Wired prints. Magazines make their money from advertising. Contact the advertisers and tell them that you will never use their products and encourage everybody you know to not use their products if they continue to support leftist publications. For those of us who don't get Wired, publish their list of advertisers so that more people can contact the businesses too.

I see what you're saying, but Boycotting Wired advertisers would basically entail going completely off the grid:

from here: http://www.wired.com/wired/ads/adlinks/
1 & 1 Internet
3M Company
Acura
Adobe Acrobat 7.0
Audi of America, Inc.
Banana Republic
British Airways
Buick
Cadillac
Chrysler
Cisco
Citibank
DataPipe � Managed Hosting Services
Dell Inc.
Dodge: All New 2006 Dodge Charger
Epson
Fujitsu
General Motors
Harman Kardon, Incorporated
Hilton Garden Inn
Hummer
JBL, Incorporated
Ketel One Vodka
Land Rover
Lexus
Mazda
Microsoft Office
Motorola
Newegg.com
Oakley, Inc.
Oracle
Rackspace Managed Hosting
Saab
Sanyo Digital
Sanyo Wireless
Sonos, Inc.
Sony Electronics
Toyota
United States Postal Service
Verizon Wireless
Xerox Corporation

[brutal]

I've been yelling "KILL" at a bullet sitting on my desk all morning.

Nothing yet, but I'll keep everyone posted.

[sniper7]

I've been yelling "KILL" at a bullet sitting on my desk all morning.

Nothing yet, but I'll keep everyone posted.

ill try a few of mine and see if I can get anything different. I'll try just the projectiles as well as fully loaded rounds.

[HoneyBadger]

I have some of those "extra deadly" hollow points! I'll go give it a try... [Bang]

[speedysst]

Its extremely disturbing that they figured out that the amount of ammunition produced is "enough bullets to pump 32 rounds into every man, woman, and child in America." You have to have a pretty sick mind to think of things from that perspective.

[Aloha_Shooter]

I had a subscription to Wired for exactly one year. In that year, I determined the magazine was staffed by and catered to self-important Generation Yers with a great appreciation for technology and a nodding appreciation for Science in the abstract but little appreciation for actually understanding science. (BTW, this is unfortunately also characterizes what has become Scientific American in the last 10+ years -- a once great magazine filled with science that now has orgasmic paeans to "Green" technology and anthropogenic global warming ///// climate change.) Try to pin a Wired writer or reader on physics-based causality for some of their assertions and you'll get a blank stare similar to asking Nancy Pelosi how she would get federal spending under control and back to FY1996 or 2000 norms or asking Michael Bloomberg what the young woman accosted by a gang of 4+ hoodlums with evil intent should do.