Thursday, March 02, 2017

Not So Pretty Little Liars Redux

Our story so far:

Not being obsessed with Bloomberg's newest celebrity spokesflack, Troian Bellisario, I'd assumed from the caption on her fan girl's Twitter post ("Me, if anyone ever tries to say Troian doesn't love her fans") that the photo was of @MyQueenTroian ("Marie") holding a gun. That looks to have been a mistake. It appears the photo was of the "starlet"herself.

Marie's Twitter account is active again (albeit the gun photo post resulting in the "Sorry, that page doesn't exist!" message has been deleted, and damage control was evidently the cause of the temporary outage).  This "discussion" thread on my article appears to corroborate that the photo is of Bellisario:

I had to look up "Patrick," because knowing who these people are has never been a priority, and he's evidently her husband, another overprivileged, self-absorbed "progressive" from the looks of his Twitter account. How old the photo is and where it was taken may have bearing, because if it was in California, unless it was part of a professional gig and issued by a licensed prop master, replica guns without fluorescent coatings or markings are illegal to possess.* (In Patrick's native Canada, the prohibition is even more complete.)

Real ot not, that's one hell of a pose for a "common sense gun safety advocate" to strike. Let's hope Bloomberg's Pretty Little Liar is also not Bloomberg's Pretty Little "Gun Criminal." Assuming the gun not being "real" isn't also a pretty little lie.

In any case, it's gratifyng to know Everytown and attn: put money into this video, and to note in spite of that and all the free publicity, it has only attracted 2,345 views at this writing. And from the looks of the comments, most have come over from the Liberty side and aren't buying into the crap. My guess is exposing inconvenient disconnects has rendered it useless as a tool.

* They've been illegal to manufacture, transport, buy and sell there for years.

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