Posted on 10/28/2016 4:20:08 PM PDT by marktwain
The New York Times produced another hit piece on guns, pushing for some sort of general increase in the current infringements on the Second Amendment. At Reason.com, Brian Doherty did a good job of taking apart much of the bias and ignorance displayed in the article. The Reason.com article is worth reading, and I recommend it. A fair amount can be summed up in these two paragraphs. From the nytimes.com:
The findings are dispiriting to anyone hoping for simple legislative fixes to gun violence. In more than half the 130 cases, at least one assailant was already barred by federal law from having a weapon, usually because of a felony conviction, but nonetheless acquired a gun. Including those who lacked the required state or local permits, 64 percent of the shootings involved at least one attacker who violated an existing gun law.
Of the remaining assailants, 40 percent had never had a serious run-in with the law and probably could have bought a gun even in states with the strictest firearm controls. Typically those were men who killed their families and then themselves.
I read the article at the New York Times. I seldom visit it because of their highly selective rendition of questionable facts, and their obvious pushing of an anti-Second Amendment agenda. Why corrupt the data stream with data from an obviously corrupt source? But this article was in my area of expertise.
The article referenced three cases that I recognized, cases I have written about. The New York Times mis-characterized or left out important information in all three cases. Color me not surprised.
The Conyers, Georgia case involved an attempted mass shooting that was interrupted by an armed citizen.
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Never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.
Mark Twain
One of my all time favorite quotes by Twain
As part of my home schooling I’ve read all of Mark Twain’s books. I became a MT nut including video’s of Hal Holbrook playing MT on stage in Mark Twain Tonight. Absolutely amazing. I know quite a bit of MT’s zingers. My favorite is: “Congress. That grand old benevolent national asylum for the helpless”
I have read most (if not all) of his famous quotes
It takes a special something to trigger the memory to come up with one his zingers.
Present day political climate is very conducive trigger for his zingers. LOL
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