Posted on 02/13/2015 5:11:39 AM PST by marktwain
Its not just Dan Patrick: Open carry politics have proven troublesome for lots of people, which is pretty weird for what appeared to be a slam-dunk issue. During election season, hardly anyone openly said that it might be a bad idea to let everyone in Texas carry guns all of the time, like the people on Gunsmoke or Bonanza. Or Pulp Fiction.Notice that the writer, Ross Ramsey, immediately throws up a huge fictional strawman. He cannot compare the reality, which exists in 44 states, because it works against his desires. He has to create a strawman, and to do so he uses fictional examples: Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Pulp Fiction.
Heck, even Wendy Davis, the Democratic candidate for governor, said she was for open carry. After the election she said she regretted taking that position, but nobody learned of her second thoughts until after the votes had been counted.Yes, even Wendy Davis could see that there were thousands of activists pushing to do away with the antiquated reconstruction era law. That she recanted immediately after the election shows just how popular she judged it to be. Texas is one of only six states that bans the open carry of modern handguns in most public places.
And on the opening day of the Legislature, some of the open carry people created obstacles for their issue that their most imaginative opponents could never have produced. They manufactured most of a gun right on site outside the Capitol, which is legal but makes some of the state troopers who guard that building a little apprehensive.This is a classic manipulation. The open carriers mentioned did not create the obstacles that are mentioned. Their disarmist opponents in the media used their actions to create the obstacles. If the media were friendly to open carry, then the open carry lobbyists would have been lauded as "freedom fighters" and "principled constitutionalists" standing up to the establishment. But, because the media are hostile to the second amendment, the incident was portrayed as threatening, and is being used by the media to attempt to derail open carry reform.
The Tribune’s Editor is Leon Trotsky.
When promoting leftist and perverted causes, the TV reporters do it with enthusiasm and present extended coverage of propaganda by the leftist advocates. And if pressured to occasionally acknowledge opposition to such leftist causes, they limited it to some man-on-the-street, rather than a conservative expert on the subject, presenting quips, rendered meaningless by selective editing.
When having to report on conservative efforts, the displayed tone is somber, almost to the point of distaste. And no matter how well the conservative spokesman manages to present his case in the limited and edited segment, the report closes with a leftist response countering the conservative cause using exaggerated and unsubstantiated claims, unquestioned by the local TV media.
^^^ Spot On ^^^
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