Amusing how Kathleen Parker & WaPo wanted to sound fancy by not using "weaponizing," but she's just wrong.

"Weaponing" is to furnish with weapons, e.g., "the armorer was weaponing the soldiers."

The word she means is "weaponizing," i.e., "to adapt for use as a weapon."

LOL, they changed it. You're welcome, WaPo, but if you really wanted to improve your paper, you'd take the column down and never publish anything by Kathleen Parker again.
@maxkennerly Hell, just remove the first five words from the headline.