Freedom of the press should be restricted to hand set type on manually cranked presses, because the founders couldn't have forseen high speed presses or the internet.
The gun control freaks are like ghouls.
Not before the bodies are even buried do they try to push thier sick agenda of disarming American citizens for the actions of muslim terrorists...
Cannons were around at the time of the founding of this nation.....pretty powerful weapons. Yet the Founding Fathers did not ban them.
So this articles argument is a fail from the word go.
The new, semi-literate fascists in journalism are like zombies. They need “brains...brains!”
They should be on low incomes in isolated areas near deadly predators of various kinds. That would change their perspective.
Come to realize it, that wouldn’t stop them. They’re the more equal animals. They would still want their less stylish, more technically inclined neighbors to be disarmed.
“...and thereby ignoring statistics that show that far more people die from handguns.”
Grammar alert...
Which show that...
Good point
This attack lasted THREE! SOLID! HOURS! And claimed about 50 victims.
A blunderbuss would have sufficed.
Bttt.
This is actually a pretty good article.
One difficulty is that this has become a form of class warfare at this point - "gun people" are characterized as ignorant, malevolent, and jealous of their prerogatives. The last, the only true point, is presented as a bad thing by people equally jealous of theirs on other issues.
Yes, firearms owners are suspicious, and we have very good reason to be. One would never place the keeping of legislation regarding automobiles in the hands of people who hate them and wish to make it so that no one owns one. That sort of legislation mirrors the stuff we're seeing from the gun prohibitionist side: proudly ignorant, thoroughly useless, totally malicious, and eventually counterproductive. It is legislation that will be overwhelmingly ignored by its targets, for targets we are, and we have no intention whatever of becoming defenseless targets.
“There are many reasons that this cycle repeats as it does....”
“Media stories in the wake of mass shootings typically feature a laundry list of mistakes that reflect their writers’ inexperience with guns and gun culture....”
“....focusing on mass shootings involving assault weapons—and thereby ignoring statistics that show that far more people die from handguns...”
The media is complicit in this relatively new ‘trend’ of mass murder using semiauto military styled rifles. In their current attempt to demonize so called ‘assault rifles’, the media and Hollywood is awash in stories and imagery proclaiming how these certain rifles give the user the ability to stop a locomotive with a single shot, single handedly fight off a platoon of elite soldiers by launching 800 rounds of exploding bullets with a single pull of the trigger, and how YOU can have this ability too by just heading to any gun show, where they’re practically giving them away. This is a siren cry, seemingly irresistible to young confused libtards and to the muslim men being deliberately imported by Obama and the Uniparty. Yes, I am definitly saying that the media is playing a large role in glamorizing these rifles, giving them an irresistible appeal to wanna be copy cat killers.
As non-biased as Slate is attempting to be by admitting their ignorance about firearms in this article, the article following this one at their website attempts to associate Sig Sauer with Nazis.
From the article: “If the media wants to work toward actual solutions for gun violence, to do right by the people who are senselessly murdered, they need more than righteous indignation. They need to be better informed and more willing to engage honestly with their opponents.”
Screw the media’s “solutions.” We can rest assured that they will be in the vein of a “final solution to the gun owner question.”
Let them wallow in perpetual ignorance. At least it’s entertaining.
“”” There are many reasons that this cycle repeats as it does. “””
Because they know that eventually it will stick.
I really, really can’t figure this out.
And why do these groups attack the NRA ? The NRA isn’t half as powerful as they like to think. Infowars is more of an editorial powerhouse, reaching FAR more people than the NRA does.
They’ve stopped blaming Rush though.. and I wonder if Rush is insulted by that.
Be careful of what you say.
They already give more freedom to the pornography press than they do to political speech.
They want to shut down political speech that they don’t agree with. Free speech is under assault and the USSC does not have its back.