Everytown Unveils Their Latest Weapon in Their War on the AR-15 Rifle

I have never really understood why anyone would work for the anti-gun team, especially writers. It’s got to be maddening and extremely difficult given their complete disassociation from the truth. They’ve been outed so many times for outright lies, fraudulent data, fake news stories and completely false claims, it’s a miracle anyone believes anything they put into print.

Everytown’s senior staffers, those above the age of 30 anyway, have to be wondering one thing: How to make people actually believe that the tripe they turn out is true.

After reading a classic work of Everytown fiction —  Assault Weapons and High-Capacity Magazines — which was recently updated and featured in their sister publication, The Smoking Gun, under a sexier headline, it’s clear that Everytown has hit on a new strategy to regain the public’s trust.

Superscripts! That’s right, superscripts.

Superscripts are those tiny little numbers used to link to footnotes, trademarks, supporting stories or other data.

They⁵⁶⁷ tend to make any bit of writing⁵⁸⁹⁴³ appear much more scholarly²³  and professional when they’re included in reporting⁹⁹. At least, that’s the theory.

Anyway, use superscripts, Everytown has done. There are more than 75 of them in the newly updated story. Many of them link to dead-end sources like “Everytown research” or some other mythical place. Still, they change the mood of the piece and make the story seem more scholarly, more believable. Anyway, that’s the intent.

How else could they write fiction like this: “The evidence is clear: Assault weapons and high-capacity magazines are exceptionally dangerous and should be prohibited.”

Everytown’s Authors

Those who are responsible for the story are almost as interesting as the craziness they’ve cobbled together.

The main story was coauthored by Tannuja D. Rozario and Paige Tetens. Ms. Rozario, who has a PhD in sociology, is Everytown’s Director of Research and Engagement. Before writing about guns she wrote about women, especially Caribbean women.

Her work includes bangers like, ‘HIV stigma beliefs in context: Country and regional variation in the effects of instrumental stigma beliefs on protective sexual behaviors in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa,’ and ‘Caribbean womanism: decolonial theorizing of Caribbean women’s oppression, survival, and resistance.’ There’s also, ‘Indo-Caribbean Feminist Epistemology: A Personal and Scholarly Journey.’

She hasn’t written all that much about guns, strangely enough. It seems that just about any kind of work for the omnicause now qualifies as far as Everytown is concerned.

Ms. Tetens is a Senior Research Associated for Everytown. According to her LinkedIn page, she hasn’t worked anywhere else.

She started in 2018 while she was still a student at Rutgers. She progressed steadily from Research Intern to Junior Research Consultant, to Research Fellow, to Research Associate to her current position, Senior Research Associate. She’s one of Everytown’s most published writers.

Greg Lickenbrock wrote the Smoking Gun story about the other authors’ now-updated work. For anyone who values the Second Amendment, Mr. Lickenbrock is everything you’d expect him to be.

For the past six years he’s worked as a Senior Firearms Analyst for Everytown, but before that he was a allegedly a gun guy before that, at least on paper.

Lickenbrock spent years as an editor at several well-respected outdoor magazines. Then, for some unknown reason that probably involved more money dug out of some very deep pockets, he switched teams.

Nowadays, his work includes the usual anti-gun stories and even testimony, all tilting anti-gun, of course. “Lickenbrock isn’t an expert on anything. He’s gun control’s convenient fool,” the National Shooting Sports Foundation wrote succinctly about him in a 2025 story.

So it goes.

 

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