Without it, the gun control effort at the federal level will continue to be an exercise in humiliation and futility, failing to pass even the most innocuous and reasonable gun laws.
When a prosecutor asked whether the training included learning to distinguish between guns and innocuous objects, Officer Carroll said: "The only objects they ever pulled on us were firearms.
Sure, only 46 senators ultimately voted against extending background checks, but the fact that this relatively innocuous measure was the only gun control amendment that had a chance of passing indicates a broader epidemic of subservience to the gun lobby.
Jones, writing in The New York Review of Books thought The Man with the Golden Gun was "an innocuous run-of-the-mill adventure story of 1911 vintage", Anthony Lejeune, writing in the National Review, thought that it "is undeniably slight, but, like everything Fleming wrote, intensely readable .
The young boys whose skin rendered them both normative and innocuous were eager to fire the gun.
While it's certainly shocking, there have been similar instances of deceptive passengers trying to get away with hiding banned items in seemingly innocuous carry-on items (see: stun gun in Marlboro pack).
On posters here, though, the guns were replaced with more innocuous pepper spray canisters, police badges and bare hands.
He got Officers Carroll and McMellon to concede that most of the people they thought had guns turned out to have been carrying "innocuous objects, like wallets or beepers".
I asked what I thought was a fairly innocuous question and she said: "I have a loaded gun under the table.
Munro selects an innocuous Dickinson poem — no "My Life Had Stood — A Loaded Gun" — and then presents Common's work as manifestly inferior, noting that "you'll get extra credit for counting the death threats.
