Author Accuses Media of Intentional Bias Against Guns

CNSNews.com ^ | 5/20/03 | Jeff Johnson

[Travis McGee]

I'm sure that we will now see Lott on the ABCNNBCBS morning shows.

< /sarcasm >

[Terriergal]

We *really* need to get some of Lott's books... also "Shooting Back" by Van Wyk.

[archy]

Reality says we can't lock all of them up.

True enough. Even the Finns had that problem with the Pro-Soviet traitors among their own countrymen during the War for Independence between the *Whites and Reds* in 1918.

The ones they didn't jail, they shot. Or bayonetted.

-archy-/-

[ibbryn]

That's a beautiful chart.
I live in a yellow state and I keep explaining to my wife that our state is not the norm. I didn't realize it myself for a long time. It makes you nutty to be surrounded by nuts.

[Grampa Dave]

My dad used to tell me about the Finns and this problem.

In our stupid state of Kalifornia, just the 3 strikes law in about 2 years cleared a lot of professional criminals off the streets, and our crime rate dropped re the good guys/gal getting mugged or worse.

The trial lawyers, left wing mayors, judges, DAs and mediots still try to weaken the law. It ain't working for them.

[demosthenes the elder]

hrmn...
seems I'll want to place this new book beside its brother in my library.
Thanks for the heads-up.

[demosthenes the elder]

good point well stated.

[FreeRadical]

More guns means less state power, hence they oppose it.

Funny, every time that bell rings, someone's at the front door.

I wish more people put the gun question in these terms. We get so strung out on crime and CCW and Assault Weapon this and that. Screw all that. What matters is what you said: More guns in the hands of us, means the state has less power. Everything else is just minutia and subterfuge skillfully wielded by bad guys.

[Frohickey]

You know, there is a very simple way out of this for the media.

At the very end of the news story, the exact final ultimate sentence of the story should read...

And today, over 200 million guns were not used in a criminal act!

[Leisler]

That's the way I look I look at everything the left, and others, do. It is all about the power equation.

Ask a lefty if he/she/it is into "impowering" the people. When they say yes, you got them, although they always squirm.

[chicagolady]

Don't tell me tell John Lott..Thats what HE said!!

It would be my wish.. He said Idaho just passed it?!?!???

[chicagolady]

You need it against crooks like Daley!!

[liberalnot]

guns are illegal in mexico, yet people die daily from gang violence, drug cartel violence, and the mexican government.

[chicagolady]

Not Really. The good ones are always married!

[Tailback]

He was on a local radio talk show hyping his book today. He was very good and it was a great hour segment with some great discussion from callers. The bias against guns in newspapers goes much farther that just headlines. Let's take the Oregonian for example. High school sports are given a lot of play in the sports section, in fact even sports like high school golf during the state finals get pictures and write-ups. Well an Oregon team won the Whistler Boy team junior championship at the National Championships at Camp Perry and I don't remember the Oregonian showing any pictures of them or doing an article. One of the shooters off that team won the High Civilian shooter award also and I don't recall an article on his achievment in the state's largest newspaper.

[PhilDragoo]

"It has a bias for the event over the non-event, the thing that actually happened as opposed to the thing that never happened, for the violent over the placid, for the dramatic over the mundane," Waldman said.

That's crap.

1) If it bleeds, it leads;

2) Guns are only good in the hands of cops;

3) Guns used to prevent crime? Sorry, that's counter to our agenda and we airbrush it out.