CNN: Even With Obama Gun Control Agenda, Gun Owners 'Might Even Be Paranoid'

NewsBusters.org ^ | 3/30/2009 | Matthew Balan

[Pyro7480]

During a segment on Friday’s Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull program, CNN tried to perpetuate left-wing stereotypes about gun owners, and sent mixed messages about whether or not President Obama and his administration is pushing for gun control. Correspondent Sean Callebs interviewed two Texas professionals who owned guns and concluded, “A nurse, an attorney -- not the usual portrait of Second Amendment diehards.” After asking a gun store owner if he was “profiting on this fear” of new gun control measures, Callebs expounded on the concerns of gun owners: “In fact, it may not be rational at all. It might even be paranoid. But one thing is certain. Many gun owners believe this president is somehow out to curb their rights and they’re stocking up just in case.”

Both Callebs and CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin tried to assure their viewers that gun control was “way off the agenda right now” of the Obama administration, despite the fact that a graphic on the news crawl stated plainly that President Obama “wants to make expired Assault Weapons Ban permanent.”

The CNN correspondent traveled to Tyler, Texas, “one of those places all over America where a kind of quiet call to arms is getting louder and louder,” as he put it. Besides interviewing the lawyer and the nurse, he visited a local gun store, where he skeptically asked one of the employees of the store, “Why would someone own a semiautomatic weapon like this? I mean, is saying it’s my right, is that enough?”

[Pyro7480]

More MSM anti-gun bias at work...

[devistate one four]

Stae run media, wrong as always

[KeyLargo]

“way off the agenda right now”

Yeah, sure, and I believe in the Easter Bunny too.

[grobdriver]

way off the agenda right now

We're just staying ahead of him...

[OneWingedShark]

>“Why would someone own a semiautomatic weapon like this?

Because I like shooting.

>I mean, is saying it’s my right, is that enough?”

If that isn’t enough is it a right?

[chris_bdba]

Do these people even realize what they sound like?

[Obadiah]

...gun control was “way off the agenda right now”

Yeah, give Obama six months, or watch Obama's minions start administratively enacting things.

[DustyMoment]

“In fact, it may not be rational at all. It might even be paranoid. But one thing is certain. Many gun owners believe this president is somehow out to curb their rights and they’re stocking up just in case.”

Lessee, with mandatory embedded markers being placed in bullets starting in July, I don't think it's paranoia . . . . . . I think it's justifiable under the growing totalitarism of the Obamoron.

[crusty old prospector]

Interesting side note - the cardiologist who owns the Lock and Load also took the infamous photographs of the Space Shuttle Columbia when it disintegrated over East Texas.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Er....Obama’s “gun control” agenda has nothing to do with the sales bump......it’s all the other “control” agendas.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Fine. But just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.

[grobdriver]

with mandatory embedded markers being placed in bullets starting in July

Huh?

[SIDENET]

Both Callebs and CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin tried to assure their viewers that gun control was “way off the agenda right now” of the Obama administration, despite the fact that a graphic on the news crawl stated plainly that President Obama “wants to make expired Assault Weapons Ban permanent.”

Some fine reporting there from the fools at CNN.

Even during their stupid agenda piece, on their own channel, the truth still crawled across the bottom of the screen.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Just because we’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they are NOT out to get us.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

I saw a tag-line once that read:

“In 20 years we may look back on this and laugh...or we may be too busy fighting.”

[SoldierDad]

During a segment on Friday’s Campbell Brown: No All Bias, No All Bull program, . . . .

There, now it's accurate.

[Obadiah]

Yeah. Huh?

[Billthedrill]

CNN has revivified the "Fear and Paranoia" meme that I thought for a few days we were finally over. It actually amounts to the argument that anyone crazy (or fearful) enough to want a gun is too crazy (or fearful) to be allowed to have one.

And yes, exercising a right is sufficient justification. It isn't the Bill of Needs.

[George from New England]

For many, it’s a wise investment. Your dollars are being devalued and the stock market has worse days to be had. Why not invest where the payoff seems most likely.

[Centurion2000]

Deep thoughts: A paranoid, a person who knows more about what is going on then the rest of us care to admit.