Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld has retired its longest running segment: Pinch, a snooty sounding anthropomorphic newspaper that parodies the New York Times.
Posted on 09/15/2014 3:34:10 AM PDT by expat1000
In a stunning op-ed released Friday, the NY Times finally admitted that “assault weapons” are a made-up political term fabricated by anti-gun Democrats.
Op-ed writer Lois Beckett also admitted that once the term was manufactured and used to outlaw a class of weapons that dishonest anti-gun Democrats had used to con an entire nation, nothing happened .
It was much the same in the early 1990s when Democrats created and then banned a category of guns they called “assault weapons.” America was then suffering from a spike in gun crime and it seemed like a problem threatening everyone. Gun murders each year had been climbing: 11,000, then 13,000, then 17,000.
Democrats decided to push for a ban of what seemed like the most dangerous guns in America: assault weapons, which were presented by the media as the gun of choice for drug dealers and criminals, and which many in law enforcement wanted to get off the streets.
This politically defined category of guns — a selection of rifles, shotguns and handguns with “military-style” features — only figured in about 2 percent of gun crimes nationwide before the ban.
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Ping for enlightenment.
For later
Be forewarned, this is a 1 time glitch...soon to be forgotten or overruled by little pinch
Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld has retired its longest running segment: Pinch, a snooty sounding anthropomorphic newspaper that parodies the New York Times.
Interesting. Never saw it. I was of course referring to publisher pinch Sulzberger son of former publisher punch sulzberger.
That’s why the character was called “Pinch.” It was voiced by the now departed Bill Schultz.
“assault weapon” - any semi auto or auto gun that looks frightening to a liberal.
Is it just me, or is the NYT slowly departing from it’s Stalinist, Leftist line lately?
I still think its a rag and this could be some kind of short term ploy.
Yeah on page 6 where no one sees it
It was an op-ed, which typically don’t represent the position of the editorial board of the paper itself. The NY Times has admitted nothing, and will surely be back pushing some sort of assault weapon ban soon enough.
> Is it just me, or is the NYT slowly departing from it’s Stalinist, Leftist line lately?
I still think its a rag and this could be some kind of short term ploy.
I’d lay odds that they finally figured out that the lefties arem’t going to buy their rag because they’ve got their noses buried in their mobile devices so they’re trying to switch sides and stay afloat.
The comments should be interesting
How long had this particular writer been working for the NYT before being let go?
Nah. Knowing Obama to be a failure, they’re just setting up for the next Dem dummy, who will bring “needed change”.
Negating the term “assault weapons” leads me to believe the NYT has an end run planned. Stay tuned..........
Could be. Maybe it'll turn out like one judge dealt with porn, ie: 'I can't define it, but I know it when I see it.'
In other words, EVERYTHING will be an assault weapon to somebody, and we can't have that!
The article points out that the term "assault weapon" is meaningless and that the rifles it is typically (and in error IMHO) applied to are responsible for a small fraction of firearms related deaths. Something like 322 out of 11,000 or so. The article points out the truth that the vast majority of those deaths are caused by handguns.
Like you, I don't trust the gun-grabbing liberal fascists at NYT - nor any 'rat. I believe they realize "assault weapon" has just about run it's course. I think they are setting the stage for a run at all handguns. I know, crazy. Huge over-reach. But... I see no reason for the gun-grabbers to abandon their agenda - other that waking up to reality. However they are typically so indoctrinated and so invested in what comes after gun confiscation that I doubt they would ever change their ways. So if they haven't really changed, what's the angle? I think they're going to grab and (mis) use some numbers and make a run at banning/restricting handguns.
"The semi-automatic weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's
confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic
assault weapons anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to
be a machine gun can only increase that chance of public support for
restrictions on these weapons."
-- Josh Sugarman, 1988, Violence Policy Center.
All "liberals" lie some of the time; some "liberals" lie all of the time.
Like anything fabricated by a Hollywood prop department for a futuristic "Sci-Fi" flick?
Something Stallone or Seagal would carry so the viewer knows that they are "macho"?
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