The nation’s foremost “grab the guns” lobby, the Brady Campaign, is apparently targeting America’s youth by opening up a MySpace page, of all things.

I guess the Brady Campaign figures that the soft-headed, self-absorbed teeny-boppers of MySpace realm are the perfect fertile ground in which to plant their propaganda seed.  One of their first MySpace blog posts?  An impassioned diatribe about the dangers of the .22 rifle.

Now I was brought up to treat each and every firearm, regardless of size or caliber, as a deadly weapon and to handle it respectfully as such.  But the Brady Campaign’s rhetoric about the .22 being used to fire into the cracks in law enforcement body armor is so over-the-top hyperbolic as to be laughable.

But I guess it’s exactly the sort of thing the soft heads on MySpace will eat up.

The first firearm I ever handled and fired was a .22.  I murdered pop cans with my father.  It’s a fine weapon, and that .22 Winchester I learned on is still one of the most treasured pieces of my small gun collection.