When Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testified Tuesday before the Senate Appropriations Committee, it provided an opportunity to anti-gunners on Capitol Hill and in the media to show their priority is gun control, as revealed by coverage of her appearance that focuses on guns. For example, CBS coverage emphasized that, “The federal school safety commission […]
Rights Activists Blast Billionaires for Backing another Gun Control Initiative
Billionaires Paul Allen, owner of the Seattle Seahawks and co-founder of Microsoft, and venture capitalist Nick Hanauer have each donated a million dollars to a Seattle-based gun prohibition lobbying group to finance its latest gun control initiative campaign, and rights activists are reacting. The money will support the Initiative 1639 campaign, sponsored by the Alliance […]
Gun Control not Solution to School Violence, says North
About midway during his interview on Fox News with Chris Wallace, incoming National Rifle Association President Oliver North uttered what were possibly the 15 most important words in the debate about school shootings. “You’re not going to fix it by taking away the rights of law-abiding citizens,” North, a retired Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel, observed. […]
NRA’s LaPierre Rips ‘Elite Media’ as Thousands Jam Convention
National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre delivered a fiery — some might call it pure boilerplate — speech to a crowded members’ meeting Saturday focusing on one of the organization’s favorite targets: the media. Using a series of clips from past confrontations with the press and speeches over the years in which he […]
NRA Greets Trump, Pence but Media , Not So Much
The 147th annual meetings and exhibits of the National Rifle Association opened with a roar Friday with the appearances of both President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, but some in the media seemed willing to reinforce the notion of bias. Columns posted by a writer from Esquire and a commentator from CNN were […]
Toronto v. Nashville Shows Dual Standard of Anti-gun Left
What is the difference between ten people killed in Toronto, allegedly by a nut behind the wheel of a van and four people killed in Nashville, allegedly by a disturbed man wielding a semi-auto rifle? For those on the political left, the Toronto victims fell to a deranged individual, while in Nashville, the four Waffle […]
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