A guest essay published by the New York Times earlier this week contends Republicans in the South will be responsible for the deaths of their neighbors and constituents—including from gunshot wounds—because they are more concerned about “freedom” than in what writer Margaret Renkl says is a “public health emergency.” According to Fox News, Renkl is […]
NY Times Article Ignites Alarming Debate About Guns, Rights
An opinion piece in the New York Times by columnist Gail Collins has ignited a discussion that includes some alarmingly false impressions about the Second Amendment, and some clear misunderstandings about the difference between rights and a privileges. Collins indicates in responses to various readers she is not a fan of guns, but it is […]
Polls: Can the Establishment Media be Trusted?
A new Gallup survey says “Americans remain largely mistrustful of the mass media” and that the degree of trust has slipped with only 41 percent of the people having a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in newspapers. And a new Rasmussen survey says only one-in-three voters think the New York Times “gets it […]
Anti-gun Group Pressures Banks to Back Gun Control
An anti-gun group is pressuring financial institutions to limit financial dealings with gun makers and rights groups. (Dave Workman) The New York Times has reported on a tactic now being used by a gun control group calling itself Guns Down America that pressures banking institutions into withholding financial support of gun makers, rights group and […]
Retired Justice Stevens to High Schoolers: ‘Demand Repeal of 2A’
Retired U.S. Supreme Justice John Paul Stevens has inserted himself into the gun rights battle now being waged across the media and is counseling high school demonstrators to “demand a repeal of the Second Amendment” in an Op-Ed piece published by the New York Times. So much for the argument that nobody is trying to […]
Anti-gun Hypocrisy Hits New Low by Playing Race Card
The gun prohibition movement appears to have hit a new low with an attack on insurance programs for gun owners that deals the race card, but the effort just might backfire as gun rights activists recall how the gun ban lobby has long demanded that gun owners be insured. A group called Guns Down America […]