Dumbing Down Definitions

From the Danbury, CT, News-Times:

Police: Arsenal found in Danbury teen’s truck

An arsenal?? Oh noes!!!

What vast collection of arms did this dastardly youngster have? Did he have, perchance, enough firepower to arm a Marine Corps batallion? Dod he have enough firearms to hold off a zombie invasion? Was the truck filled to capacity with arms? Let’s find out…

A search of the truck revealed:

A Bushmaster rifle with a night scope and pistol grip.

Two high capacity ammunition magazines.

A Remington 12-gauge shotgun with additional ammo.

Five knives

Brass knuckles

A bulletproof vest with an armor plate.

Wait. This “arsenal” was two guns, a set of brass knuckles and some knives??? None of these are illegal weapons as set forth by the US Constitution (as backed up by the USSC’s Miller and Heller decisions); only in the minds of some corrupt politicians in some backwards states are these bannable items.

And the topper is that this story, at least as I’m writing this, is the lead news item on the News-Times website. Some kid going to show off some of his toys to his friends is turned into a Major News Item by yellow journalists looking to scare people with claims of an “arsenal.”

Bah.

See, this is one of the bigger reasons why I’m glad I moved away from the east coast. There’s many days when my little econobox would be substantially better armed than that… and I’m just going to get groceries.