Posted on 10/29/2020 1:12:24 PM PDT by ammodotcom
It’s no secret that mainstream press coverage of gun ownership in the United States tends to be in favor of gun control. Journalists focus on how many people are killed by guns, how many children get their hands on improperly stored firearms, and how many deranged individuals go on shooting sprees.
This anti-gun news bias is widespread among urban elites who have very little personal experience with guns and yet have no problem opining about the subject for influential newspapers like The New York Times or The Washington Post. Despite this bias, gun ownership has significant positive impacts on American society that often go unreported.
There is actually a sort of semi-official policy regarding this: “if it bleeds, it leads.” This means, in short, that the more death and destruction, the higher up on the news the story goes. Nothing moves units quite like tales of gun violence, so the media complies by wallpapering coverage of tragic events like mass shootings, despite the fact that such events are rare and comprise a small number of the total deaths in America.
What’s more, the media almost never reports on context when it comes to mass shootings, such as the well-documented connection between prescription antidepressants and shootings. Even when SSRIs are involved, there is a serious problem with mental healthcare in the United States, which has one of the lowest rates of involuntary commitment in the world. In other words, it is incredibly difficult to get someone who is clearly a danger to themselves and others locked away even for a short observation period.
Of course, other, more tangential causes like the breakdown of civil society and the destruction of the family are never even considered.
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Anyone not subject to incarceration or commitment order has an unalienable right to own and carry whatever armaments they can otherwise legally buy, trade, or manufacture. From John Wick’s pencil to the “Rods from God”.
Period.
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FDR tried something like that with his ban on owning gold during the Depression (he kept his stash) Executive order 6102 - something like $10,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison.
So would Creepy Joe do an EO like that regarding guns?
Keep in mind that it matters very much where you carry and pull a trigger. Even if it is flat out legit self defense, a commie prosecutor can break you in half.
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No Fathers in the home.
Destruction of The American Family (all colors, races and creeds) but the Socialist Democrats.
Thanks, again, ya fatheads!
You’ll turn in your AR for a can of stew.
You’d use your AR to get a can of stew.
You need law abiding citizens having guns, where would the gangs get them otherwise?
And ammodotcom caves to the lefts politically charged rhetoric.
Put on my Trump 2020 hat and put a few rounds through the AR-15 at the range this morning. Needed to get a bit more work in before the Apocalypse. :)
I wondered about that.
I went to wally world today, gotta have my dark chocolate peanut m&ms. all guns and ammo pulled, not even any small game loads for shotgun on the shelf.
They’ll stop selling them at all next.
I’m pretty sure they pulled them to keep them from the looters.
To hide them from the looters ... good thought.
They main reason they did that was for the press. Walmart knows if they do anything with guns they’re guaranteed to get on the front page.
Good on you. I’m just glad I live in the boonies surrounded by Trump signs.
Extremely true. There are a few things you can do to minimize risk, one of the most important being carrying the dullest, least flashy weapon possible. Think a jury is going to be impressed by a gold-plated 1911 with custom Punisher skull grips?
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