Posted on 12/05/2015 12:29:41 AM PST by TroutStalker
The New York Times on Saturday will run an editorial on its front page urging lawmakers to tighten gun control regulations, the first time the newspaper has published an editorial on Page 1 since 1920.
The Times' editorial board describes as a “moral outrage†and “national disgrace†that under Constitutional protections Americans are legally permitted to purchase deadly weapons that “kill people with brutal speed and efficiency.â€
The paper’s decision follows the recent mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., which left 14 dead and 21 wounded. On Friday, the FBI indicated that authorities are investigating a potential link to global terrorism networks. a story the paper also carries on its front page, above the fold.
The editorial, currently available on the New York Times’ website, contends that in addition to anger pointed towards the aggressors, Americans should also direct outrage to elected officials tasked with the responsibility of protecting the safety of the country, but who often “place a higher premium on the money and political power of an industry dedicated to profiting from the unfettered spread of ever more powerful firearms.â€
“It is a moral outrage and a national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons designed specifically to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency. These are weapons of war, barely modified and deliberately marketed as tools of macho vigilantism and even insurrection. America’s elected leaders offer prayers for gun victims and then, callously and without fear of consequence, reject the most basic restrictions on weapons of mass killing, as they did on Thursday. They distract us with arguments about the word terrorism. Let’s be clear: These spree killings are all, in their own ways, acts of terrorism.â€
“It is not necessary to debate the peculiar wording of the Second Amendment,†the editorial states. “No right is unlimited and immune from reasonable regulation.â€
The editorial concludes looking onward to 2016.
“What better time than during a presidential election to show, at long last, that our nation has retained its sense of decency?â€
In a statement obtained by POLITICO, the publisher of The Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., said, "It has been many decades since The Times ran an editorial on Page One. We do so today to deliver a strong and visible statement of frustration and anguish about our country’s inability to come to terms with the scourge of guns. Even in this digital age, the front page remains an incredibly strong and powerful way to surface issues that demand attention. And, what issue is more important than our nation’s failure to protect its citizens?"
The last time the paper published an editorial on its front page, in June 1920, the editorial board expressed disapproval of Warren G. Harding’s nomination as the next Republican presidential candidate.
End the Gun Epidemic in America
�‹It is a moral outrage and national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons designed to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency.
By THE EDITORIAL BOARDDEC. 4, 2015
Hmmm.
And I would reply, so what.
They are preaching to the choir (their subscribers) and they apparently have an inflated sense of self-worth, if the layout of the newspaper is worthy of an article.
Hi, Lazamataz.
I know you are a defender of the 2nd Amendment; please ping others if you feel this is worthy (it`s the middle of the night here, I woke up and couldn`t sleep, went down to read the news, but given the time, I don`t know if others will see it).
If there is a gun rights ping list, perhaps someone could reach out to that person. :)
Ping
No editorial on terrorists though! It is a gun problem, not a radical Muslim, who want to destroy us, problem! Talk about out of touch.
Do any of these damn clowns have a clue that we are sick of them looking down on flyover country and lecturing us as if we are the problem!
They walk around with a stick up their butt, with security, in gated communities while we live free with our own self protection.
I think the country has had about all it can take of these ivory tower liberals who think they have a clue about how real every day people live. They don't!
The last time that Democrats pushed major gun control, they passed the Assault Weapons Ban in 1994.
They immediately lost control of Congress that November.
What issue do Democrats lose more political control on than gun control?!
Democrats are bad at a lot of things...who would have thought that after a couple of centuries that they would start getting bad at politics of all things?!
Yeah, y’all run on “gun control!”
Can I hand ya some more rope for your noose?!
Sulzberger is a cattle car conductor for his tribe
Gun control is civil war.
“national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons designed to kill people”
Only if they are trying to kill us first, you damn morons! And, yes you fools, it’s called the Second Amendment, just as important as the First that you liberal hypocrites are so fond of when you are using it to slander law abiding citizens you don’t agree with!
It is the women showing too much ankle tha drove the rapist to rape and the gun which drove the terrorist to kill.....
Well according to the liberal relativist....
“they apparently have an inflated sense of self-worth”
Don’t they though! Sitting around sipping wine and discussing how flyover country should be lectured to by idiots!
That’s good. That guarantees more parakeets will get to express their opinions about it than when it’s on the inside.
more anti-American sedition from a paper which has a long history of it
(the one good thing is its crossword pozzles, otherwise its not even good toilet paper)
It might be worth noticing that Harding won.
Would the New York Times run a first page editorial offering to give up its First Amendment rights in the same of the greater good?
But it demands the American people be forcibly disarmed to satisfy its moral outrage. Our RKBA is not dependent upon its approval.
The NYT and the hoplophobe crowd are welcome to pry our guns from our cold, dead hands. We will defend to the death, our cherished American birthright.
MOLON LABE!
useless weak kneed jihadist apologists
[ It is not necessary to debate the peculiar wording of the Second Amendment, the editorial states. No right is unlimited and immune from reasonable regulation. ]
Translation: We the libs will regulate the freedom of religion and speech under “reasonable regulation” until those do not functionally exist either.
If they are gonna use this event to regulate guns away... why not regulate offending muslims as well curtailing the 1st amend while they have the “momentum”....
The NYT would sell their 1st amend “birthright” for some effing porridge and a seat at the table of power the damned dipshits....
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