Associated Press Displays Anti-Rights Credentials
Associated Press reported that on Sunday, a Mount Rainier National Park ranger was murdered by a man whom authorities suspect had earlier shot four people at a house party near Seattle.
The story’s fairly well written until the conclusion, which is where writers place the message they want readers to take with. After writing about how sad this situation is — and it is – AP wrote:
It has been legal for people to take loaded firearms into Mount Rainier since 2010, when a federal law went into effect that made possession of firearms in national parks subject to state gun laws.
Gun banners 101: Work up the emotions and insert the anti-gun message to get people motivated to do something.
As if somebody committing murder — a capital crime resulting in death or a life sentence — cares about a niggling misdemeanor or low-level felony like a gun ban?
Tacoma News Tribune mirrored the AP message in their lede, except when they interviewed George Coulbourn, a park volunteer who’s against guns in parks, who admitted:
If guns had been prohibited at the park, it doesn’t sound like that would have any effect on this. This is murder.
“I don’t think that has any bearing on this. When you have someone who would spontaneously kill someone, a prohibition of guns in the park wouldn’t stop someone like that.
Regarding park carry, Coulburn also said: “If you’re not comfortable visiting the park because of animals, you don’t belong there.”
Curiously, News Tribune ran a story a few weeks back where a woman died in an “animal attack, possibly a wolf attack.”
Grades: News Tribune, C; AP, F.
There’s a world of difference between gun nut paranoia and reality. Media fails in its duty by creating news instead of reporting it.
(Brady misreports, too.)
When will these anti-gun zealots get it in their thick, low-browed heads: Laws banning guns do not deter someone intent on killing and/or harming another.
“Media fails in its duty…”
Ha Ha Ha.
I refer you to the insight of http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2011/11/15/
Heh. Even in media’s alleged agenda of ‘social justice’ they fail. Gun control correlates with higher black homicide rates, higher female rape rates, and higher violent crime rates.
If they change ‘social justice’ to ‘just plain socialism’ it would be far closer to the truth.
“…Work up the emotions and insert the anti-gun message to get people motivated to do something.”
There may be some, but for the most part I dont think it is a calculated strategy. The people using it genuinely believe it is a legitimate argument, after all, that is how they came to their conclusion. If they rehash the emotional appeal surely we must all come to the same conclusion. They are merely trying to recreate their experience for us.
If, on the other hand, facts and sound logic are taken into account the anti-gun case unravels. I have debated with many anti-gun people who were completely mystified by my stance only because the actual facts and reality were of no significance to them. They were driven by emotion only. In the fashion of the devoutly religious I have had at least two tell me flat out; “I cant argue against what you are saying, but I still will never think it is a good idea for people to have guns. I dont care what you say, I just wont.”
You cannot talk to such a person.
Look, rich/conservative people with too much guns/money/freedom/property/whatver, break out the torches and pitchforks for “social justice”! (or so… thank you, left/liberals, I hope you like mob rule).
“If you’re not comfortable visiting the park because of animals, you don’t belong there.”
It’s not the animals that in the park that make me uncomfortable. Not the four legged kind, anyway…
Easy for a ranger to say, they’re armed and know the dangers. Why are they armed if it’s so unnecessary? I say let me be armed too. If it’s so safe then show me and if you are a risk taker who will shed your gun why must I be. One reason I hate visiting parks is that the people who work there act like I’m in their frickin’ living room and just born yesterday or straight off a dude ranch.
“Regarding park carry, Coulburn also said: “If you’re not comfortable visiting the park because of animals, you don’t belong there.””
If Mr. Coulburn isn’t comfortable visiting the park because of law abiding citizens are carrying, he doesn’t belong there.
If you are South of Seattle and want to cross the Cascades, all logical routes go through the park, especially SH 706 or SH 12. Visiting the park is incidental if you are on your way to Yakima.
Why was a Park employee trying to be a law enforcement officer? Yes, she had some law enforcement training, to an unknown level. From my discussions with one former Park employee, their law enforcement training is mostly focused on laws and regulations, not tactics.
Like a ditz, she posted herself into the middle of the road standing like a loud beacon…”you will submit to me”…crazy dude said to himself before pulling the trigger…”f that bich.”
Never give the enemy an easy target.