Re: "For most Americans, the 'gun rights' vision is nothing but a nightmare"
- From: Andrew Vida <osan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:29:42 -0500
On 2009-08-22, Phil Smythe <smytph@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm not sure why you're yawning, you went to no effort there, simply
claimed it was "filled with inaccurate and misleading information".
It helps if you claim something is wrong to actually show why that is,
but of course that would require effort and run the risk of having
your claims countered. No, far easier just pronounce from upon high
that it's all wrong.
OK Mr. rocket scientist-0 - let us examine just the beginning
portion of the drech you posted and see what we can dig up, if
"digging" even proves necessary:
Every so often, we get a picture -- with crystal clarity -- of the
kind of country the radical "gun rights" crowd wants America to be. It
OK... improper use of "radical" to imply "extreme" in an effort
to carry out a stealth editorial disguised as a statement of
fact. This demonstrates incompetent "journalism" and/or
bald-faced dishonesty... and that's just the first line.
allows us to understand just how much is at stake in the gun control
debate.
It apparently is not enough for opponents of the President's health
care proposals to bring their signs and their voices to town hall
meetings and Presidential speeches. Now they are bringing their guns.
Last week we were treated to a series of spectacles that had many
rubbing their eyes in disbelief: an Arizona constituent of
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords dropping a handgun while attending a
"meet and greet" with Rep. Giffords at a local Safeway; a man bringing
But had he dropped a hammer nobody would have given it a
second thought, the implication being that a gun is somehow
especially significant, a matter of opinion and not fact, at
best.
a concealed handgun to a town hall meeting with Rep. Steve Cohen of
Memphis; a New Hampshire man standing outside the venue for a
Presidential appearance on health care reform with a pistol openly
strapped to his thigh.
All legally and *peacefully* carried out. No shots fired,
no incident of any sort, save the hysterical reaction of the
press and the limpy-wimpy wristed liberal panty waists.
The craziness continued this week. On Monday, a dozen people openly
carrying guns were among the Obama protesters outside the Phoenix
convention center where the President was giving a speech, including a
gentleman who walked around with an AR-15 assault rifle strapped to
his back, to say nothing of his openly-displayed handgun.
AR-15 WHAT?! The AR-15 is NOT an assault rifle. Had it been
an M-16, then the statement would have been correct. So here
have an incontrovertible mistatement of the facts.
Judging from the public commentary about these stories, most Americans
regard this behavior as bizarre, intimidating and dangerous, with
Judging by *which* public commentary? Once again, author
employs misleading statements to paint the picture he wants
rather than an objectively truthful one.
frightening implications for the President's safety in particular. But
it is important not to treat these incidents of public gun-carrying as
merely the misguided behavior of a few individuals. It is more than
that. What we are seeing is the acting out of two central tenets of
the extremist "gun rights" ideology long espoused by the National
Rifle Association and other radical Second Amendment absolutists.
More misleading use of adjectives. These are opinions, not facts,
yet are presented as such.
The first tenet is that the more that law abiding citizens carry guns
in public, the safer all of us will be. This view has led to a broadly
successful campaign by the NRA to require authorities in most states
to give out permits to carry concealed weapons to any adult without a
criminal record. Once this beachhead was taken, the gun lobby moved
Editorializing on the facts with the implication that it is
all part of a sinister conspiracy to make the panty waists
feel all unsafe. And after all, it's about feelings and nothing
else, right?
So, not even half the article is examined and I hav found what,
a dozen or more mis-stated facts, not to mention the use of
innuendo to paint a picture that is presented as fact when indeed
it amounts to nothing better than the apparently unqualified opinion
of some liberal nervous nellie.
The article is pure emotionalism with thre few facts either gotten
completely wrong or massaged to make them seem siniter in and of
themselves. Now that's what I call honest, competent journalism!
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