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1 posted on 10/04/2001 6:15:33 AM PDT by First_Salute
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2 posted on 10/04/2001 6:16:31 AM PDT by First_Salute
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3 posted on 10/04/2001 6:17:36 AM PDT by First_Salute
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4 posted on 10/04/2001 6:19:41 AM PDT by First_Salute
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Link to Alert: Put ALL legislation to Bill of Rights Test
6 posted on 10/04/2001 6:23:57 AM PDT by First_Salute
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Rabbi Mermelstein does a fantastic job with that site. He is really a Jew that is one in a million. Most Jews here in the US are the leftists, Clintonians leading the fight against firearms ownership. Its nice to see there are Jews that believe in the right to bear arms.
8 posted on 10/04/2001 6:31:17 AM PDT by michaelje
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....Equally obviously, the anti-gun person who believes that malicious shootings
by ordinary gun owners are likely to occur is not in touch with reality.

That pretty much says it all.

16 posted on 10/04/2001 7:21:31 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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pro-victimhood is a feature of all of the anti-gun special interest groups, not just the ones mentioned here. Every organization that supports gun control apparently wants its members to be helpless, terrified and totally dependent on someone else to control every aspect of their lives. It doesn't matter whether it's a religious, racial, ethnic, political, social, or charitable group. From Handgun Control, Inc. to the Anti- Defamation League to the Million Mom March, they all want you to live in fear. In this scheme, soccer moms are "victims" just as much as are inner-city minorities.
Journalists claim that their job is to tell the "objective" truth. But the obviouslly they cannot and do not tell ALL of the truth; most of it would be boring and journalism is an entertainment. The least boring part of the truth is the scariest part it. Hence,

"If it bleeds, it leads."

It is scarcely to be expected that someone whose business it is to propagandize in favor of fear would eagerly publicize the efficacy of self-defense . . .

Why Broadcast Journalism is Unnecessary and Illegitimate.

19 posted on 10/04/2001 7:55:44 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion
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pro-victimhood is a feature of all of the anti-gun special interest groups, not just the ones mentioned here. Every organization that supports gun control apparently wants its members to be helpless, terrified and totally dependent on someone else to control every aspect of their lives. It doesn't matter whether it's a religious, racial, ethnic, political, social, or charitable group. From Handgun Control, Inc. to the Anti- Defamation League to the Million Mom March, they all want you to live in fear. In this scheme, soccer moms are "victims" just as much as are inner-city minorities.

Journalists claim that their job is objective truth-telling--in other words, that they are teachers. But they are less than clear about what subject they teach. Since in fact we "pupils" do not have to listen, these "teachers" are actually entertainers who select the subject matter to avoid being ignored. The subject journalism teaches is, "Why you should be afraid."

It is no accident, then, that journalists have no interest in promoting effective defense which could actually ameliorate the fear. And, as the example of Ronald Reagan illustrates, conservatives reject the counsel of fear and are inherently in opposition to journalism's intrinsic message. Whereas "liberals" merely echo journalism's message--making any claim of independence of journalism from liberalism moot.

Why Broadcast Journalism is Unnecessary and Illegitimate.

21 posted on 10/04/2001 8:56:52 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion
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To: First_Salute
Thanks for the post. Please keep me on your ping list, BUT

**** How can you communicate with these people who seem to be out of touch with reality and rational thought?****

I read only this far and gave up. I feel wonderfully free from trying to understand twits any longer in this life. They are now well marginalized and I expect the rag-heads to keep killing us with abandon which will keep that margin well off to the side and make it narrower and narrower..

23 posted on 10/04/2001 10:18:31 AM PDT by mercy
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To: First_Salute
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30 posted on 10/05/2001 10:13:21 AM PDT by FormerLurker
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