Earlier today, we noted how Commisioner Charles A. Ramsey (God that takes a long time to type, we really need to get on the case with finding this guy a nickname like “The Frickinator” or “Don’t-Say-Fuck Chuck” or something) went on a soundbyte-producing tear on Friday, prompted by a reporter’s quibbling about Wikipedia’s definition of what an assault weapon technically is. While the life lesson here is NEVER TALK TO A COP ABOUT SOMETHING YOU READ ON WIKIPEDIA, Inky staffer Sam Wood says he had his reasons, and upon reflection, they’re actually pretty good. Mostly, he’s mad as hell, after being ” raked over the coals by every gunlubber between here and Pittsburgh” after he wrote about the SKS carbine, the weapon which killed Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski. But that’s not really the half of it. After the jump, Wood pleads his case.

Hey Mr. Sweeney,
I asked Rendell’s little blonde bird of a Press Sectry before the presser why they were calling the SKS an assault rifle when we all knew it wasnt’.
She said the Gov’s office knew it wasn’t an ass weapon and there was language in the handouts that reflected it.
Only there wasn’t.
So for the next 20 odd minutes we all listened to Nutter and Rendell beat their chests about how the gun that killed Sgt. Liczbinksi was an assault weapon and would have been banned if only the ban hadn’t expired.
I said “there seems to be some dispute….”
how did i know this?
because i had been raked over the coals by every gunlubber between here and pittsburgh after writing my little luvletter about the frickin’ thing.
two things bugged me:
1) that nutter and rendell would capitalize on a dead cop to pass a nominally related piece of legislation. i like nutter and thought he’d be above that kinda bullshit.
2) when n&r were caught in a lie, none of my colleagues gave a rat’s ass. the responses i got were along the lines of “the ends justify the means.”
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Besos,
The comic book guy from the inquirer

Previously: After An Undetermined Time Spent Abroad, Commish Ramsey Returns “Frickin’” To Its Rightful Birthplace

This entry was posted on Monday, May 12th, 2008 at 1:36 pm.