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Shannon Watts dismisses woman's story of a home intruder as an anecdote of 'fear and paranoia'

There’s an op-ed in Monday’s New York Times titled, “I Wanted to Be a Good Mom. So I Got a Gun.” Obviously, that headline alone was enough to trigger Moms Demand founder Shannon Watts, but it’s her particular complaints that are so ridiculous as to be dumbfounding.

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The piece was written by Twitter phenom Bethany Mandel (@bethanyshondark), and she recounts a childhood memory of her mother driving off a home intruder with a rifle.

So what’s the problem? Well, that home intruder story is just another paranoid anecdote, apparently, and second, The New York Times used as a photo to accompany the piece a woman of color at a gun show.

Mary Katharine Ham was on hand to set things straight.

No, but Mandel’s just being paranoid, see?

Over the Republican primary season, I was an outspoken conservative critic of then-candidate Donald Trump, and a torrent of hate rolled my way. I would later learn just how much: The Anti-Defamation League named me one of the top 10 Jewish journalists to be attacked by the alt-right during the election season. After years of receiving death threats for my conservative views, months of being attacked by the alt-right and then having our address published online by the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer, I pushed myself to finally go through the process of asking friends for letters attesting to my character, obtaining fingerprints and submitting to background checks.

I was given a reason to feel that I needed to defend myself and my family. And I acted on it.

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That Shannon Watts really is a treasure.

https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/970837475127169024

And no, op-ed writers don’t get to pick and approve the photos or graphics that accompany their pieces; they’re lucky if they get any input into the headline at all.

https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/970839162172649472

Ah, “white privilege” and “common sense gun control” — two great tastes that taste great together.

Here’s where we’d post more tweets, but since Watts has blocked everyone on Twitter, pickings are slim, but this caps it off nicely.

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Update:

What was that about Watts and her crew being deplorable people?

Some good has come of the whole affair — an updated Twitter bio!

https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/970856953432993792


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