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The media is out of control in its push for gun control
The Hill ^ | March 16, 2018 | John R. Lott, Jr.

Posted on 03/17/2018 12:24:49 PM PDT by rogerantone1

Fact checkers are out of control, and on the issue of guns they no longer even try to pretend impartiality. Especially on social media, this is becoming a serious problem.

Facebook has been working with organizations such as PolitiFact, Snopes and Factcheck.org to filter news. Stories deemed “false” by these organization are labeled as false and are much more difficult to spread virally.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; cprc; facebook; guncontrol; lott; mediabias; secondamendment
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1 posted on 03/17/2018 12:24:49 PM PDT by rogerantone1
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This is what’s known as “Opportunity.”

Where is the tech entrepreneur who will exploit and cause the next great conservative breakthrough.


2 posted on 03/17/2018 12:27:22 PM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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Sad that social media is not impartial.


3 posted on 03/17/2018 12:29:21 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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The so-called “news” media and the so-called “entertainment” industry are dominated by pinkos and perverts.


4 posted on 03/17/2018 12:29:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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It has been the SCUTUS that has always protected the second amendment. It has never been the politicians.


5 posted on 03/17/2018 12:43:59 PM PDT by poinq
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🤔 "Facts? We don't need or want no steenkin facts. Facts just confuse the truth. ". Hey msm---🖕🏻
6 posted on 03/17/2018 12:44:21 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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this is all anybody needs to know is that the 2nd is the only reason the DS hasn't yet moved against PDJT.
7 posted on 03/17/2018 12:45:09 PM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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Or against anybody who voted for PDJT. They hate each & every one of us. But we’ve got the 2nd, our guns, and the will I hope to defend our freedoms if absolutely necessary.

Notice how DS & their minions look upon Australia with green envy when it comes to gun control? Didn’t Hellary wish from the heart of her bottom that Oz-style confiscations could be done here?

There is a threat, though, and that’s GVRO’s which are already biting innocent gun owners with raids & confiscations. State & local fascism is what they are.

Back on topic, listen to the hate-filled tweets of John Brennan against Pres. Trump; they’re aimed at you. Don’t think for a second that Brennan wouldn’t like to wreak revenge on flyover country for rejecting the Hildabitch.


8 posted on 03/17/2018 1:00:01 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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Rebellion against Amendment II of the Constitution is a serious matter.

“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”

United States Constitution, Amendment XIV, SECTION 3.

The members of the Florida Legislature who approved the recent gun bill and the Governor of Florida could legally be barred from public office for infringing Amendment II.

Any infringement of the right of the People to bear arms legally means disbarment from domestic government office (and probably the pensions too).

Any judge that refuses disbarment becomes in rebellion against Amendment II and the Constitution.

Will the leftist Supreme Court justices refuse to remove a rebel from office and become subject to removal by a 5 to 4 court, giving Trump the power to make it a 9 to 0 Supreme Court?

Absolutely not.

I suggest the Congress have a vote on removing the disability of the Florida rebels.

Will Congressional Democrats like Pelosi reinstate the Florida rebels?

Best to find out now.

And make sure no Republican elector is a rebel too!

The Democrats will stop at nothing to regain the Presidency, including tossing out the votes of rebel electors.


9 posted on 03/17/2018 1:01:29 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Related:

John Lott discussing universal background checks on the Mark Levin Show

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3640436/posts


10 posted on 03/17/2018 1:31:24 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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Sad that social media is not impartial.

Not likely when most social media users are liberals.

11 posted on 03/17/2018 1:33:32 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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For those old timers out there, it was worse after the murder of Bobby Kennedy back in 1968. A media led national Hysteria campaign against “gun violence”.


12 posted on 03/17/2018 1:49:50 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Re-open the insane asylums, stop drugging the kids.)
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To: StAntKnee
This is what’s known as “Opportunity.”

Government by Reuchstag fire.

"Never .et crises go to waste."

Rahm Emmanuel

13 posted on 03/17/2018 1:50:12 PM PDT by Stepan12 (It is Civll War right now..)
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To: rogerantone1
Let me fix your headline:

The media is out of control in its push for gun control


14 posted on 03/17/2018 1:51:43 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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Notice how DS & their minions look upon Australia with green envy when it comes to gun control? Didn’t Hillary wish from the heart of her bottom that Oz-style confiscations could be done here?

It's not just Hillary who wants gun confiscation, her rapist husband wants it too. Every freeper knows that guns help women defend against rapists. Suppose Juanita Broaderrick had a gun with her when Bill did his thing

15 posted on 03/17/2018 1:54:17 PM PDT by Stepan12 (It is Civll War right now..)
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I think we may need to start back ground checks on all members of the press and entertainment industries. If they do not pass they they can’t have access to TV, Film, radio, press of internet. Seriously consider this liberals. Think about Pelosi, Hillary, Rosie, etc.


16 posted on 03/17/2018 1:59:57 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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Not likely when most social media users are liberals.

The reluctance to embrace social media profoundly handicaps the ability to spread conservatism.

You get your message out on Twitter and Facebook, not by yelling at clouds. If Twitter and Facebook block you, you overwhelm them and fight back.

For every FReeper's post on Free Republic, they ought to be posting ten times as many on mainstream social media sites.

17 posted on 03/17/2018 2:02:22 PM PDT by Drew68
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What rapist Bill Clinton needed on that night in 1978 was a .38 caliber vasectomy.

And he had the nerve to give the death stare to Juanita Broaddrick during the second Presidential debate.

Hope he sees the gates of Hell yawning open soon.


18 posted on 03/17/2018 2:18:04 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

IIRC the modern push for gun control began even earlier in 1963, following the JFK assassination. I was 15 & Lyndon Johnson was already railing against “mail order murder”.


19 posted on 03/17/2018 2:20:37 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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Or against anybody who voted for PDJT. They hate each & every one of us

That's how they have operated, every single time they've attempted a Leftist takeover, for over a century. Their playbook has not changed one iota. They beguile the poor with empty promises, they blame the rich and powerful, and seek control to entrench themselves even more that those currently in power. They instigate an event to spark widespread violence. They take control, and then round up and murder all the "undesirables" who dared to oppose their rise to power. That's why nobody blinks when Hillary calls 1/4 of the nation "Deplorable" human beings. It is simply the process of dehumanizing the opposition, so that their followers can stand idly by, or even participate, in the widespread massacre that inevitably follows their conquests (if successful).

20 posted on 03/17/2018 2:47:22 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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