For a week following the tragic massacre in Newtown, CT, many in the mainstream media called on the National Rifle Association to speak up. A week later, the NRA did speak up, and many in the mainstream media took to Twitter to attack what the group was saying.
Some compared NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre’s remarks to the long-winded diatribes of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Another simply called it “nuts.”
Mother Jones‘ David Corn slammed LaPierre for taking no questions and called the statement “propaganda,” but just today President Obama took no questions after nominating Sen. John Kerry to head the State Department.
As for the sanity of LaPierre’s proposition that we place armed security at all schools, 53% of Americans support doing that. That’s a larger majority than the one that re-elected Obama to the presidency.
The only statement that these so-called journalists would have accepted from the NRA would have been one that agrees entirely with their emotion-based point of view.
Update: A hot mic caught reporters before the NRA presser slamming the organization and praising Code Pink for trying to disrupt the press conference.
Maybe we can have liberals walk around the schools with targets on their backs that say “shoot me instead of an innocent child”.
Naw, left/liberals are too selfish… they’d rather have dead children they can cite to ban guns than live ones for which they have to be responsible anyway.
Complain to their employer’s about their obvious bias. Demand they be replaced with fair-minded professionals.
No, it won’t happen. But it can’t hurt.
– given how they admire Castro.
I think the police in the schools is a bad move you will have–should already have, since in some places they are already there–cause to regret, as it will change the idea of the fundamental relationship of citizen and state. Those children will grow up to be good little subjects of authority, as they already are somewhat. But hey, what ever went wrong with putting focus on short-term political needs?
Look, I understand the poltical need. What not enough admit to are the costs of meeting those needs. You want an independent citizenry not dependent upon the state for every last thing, putting armed uniform cops in every school is a.) going to traumatize the kids out of all proportion to the threat, and b.) get them used to nanny government taking care of them in all things even more.
We need to trust the people, and in this case it means trusting some of the school staff with a little discreet firepower. If we can’t trust the citizenry with weapons, how can we trust them with votes or free speech? Perhaps we should limit those as well?
So can we start carrying signs saying Democrats Kill Babies when they speak? I mean fair is fair.
If supporting the actual Constitutional right to own a firearm makes you a child killer then supporting the manufactured constitutional right to have an abortion means you’re a baby killer doesn’t it?
It’s interesting how liberals love kids once they are past their first trimester
Code Pink has proven time and time again that while they’re not the sharpest knives in the drawer, they’ve got more balls than most of the MSM weenies. That’s why they don’t dare vilify them for rude behavior. Media weenies are almost as afraid of Code Pink as they are of AQ
The only one of those people whose names I recognize is David Corn of Mother Jones. Both Corn and MJ fly their liberal flags proudly, so I don’t think anyone should be too shocked if they don’t suddenly pretend to be unbiased just because an NRA press conference is going on.
How about the rest of those people? Who are they? You do realize that there is a fairly substantial openly partisan press in this nation, don’t you? On both sides of the partisan divide?
Tell me that a single one of those people writes for a major media outlet and paints himself as non-partisan, and then you might have a story. As for now, I’ll just say that I wouldn’t be screaming “Stop The Presses!!!!!!” if I heard that Charles Krauthammer made a snide remark as Obama was about to speak.
Krauthammer is a commentator, not a reporter. His job is to comment on things, not report things. If he calls Obama a scum-sucking communist dirtbag, it’s a comment, not a report of fact.
It’s when reporters become commentators that they lose the privilege to be called the Fourth Estate, and become a Fifth Column. Freedom of the press is not functioning when the press, i.e. the reporters, are nothing more than Democrat scribes. Partisan commentators are par for the course. Partisan reporters are simply liars with bylines.
Krauthammer is the smartest guy in the the news world, and if he said Obama was a lowlife scumsucking dirtbag, it would be a fact in my view. For a rational counter argument see:
http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/an-opinion-on-gun-control/?year=2012&monthnum=12&day=20&like=1&_wpnonce=d6daaddd75&wpl_rand=460331ba9c
I’m glad to see the NRA stand up to the press. Supreme court judges, and elected members of the house and senate, and people all over the country are afraid of public shaming by the press. The press does more damage than just brainwashing people with liberal ideology, they have conservatives cowed and afraid to stand up for their principles.
We really need an alternative type of public social support to give moral support to conservatives so they will know that almost half the population believes the liberal world view is bogus.
“…praising Code Pink for trying to disrupt the press conference.” Seems like the press is sanctioning squashing free speech. (I know, ‘news flash’)
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I was disappointed with the NRA’s statement in only one respect.
The NRA should provide lists of volunteers who will provide free guard services a
for schools, churches, and public gatherings at no charge. Just counting retired military and cops alone, there are easily enough to meet the requirement. They could be vetted by the local police and FBI and be required to go through appropriate training courses.
For guarding shopping malls the stores could provide them with free food and discount coupons.
Would I mind giving up a few hours of my time a few days a week to guard a school? Not at all! I am quite sure that many other retired military would agree.
I see no reason to give retired military or police any sort of preference, and for a licensed CCW holder, I see little need for much in the way of additional training.
I object, strongly, to the privileging and elevation of armed agents of the state, retired or no, and the idea that a person who can carry a gun in public simultaneously can’t be trusted to carry a gun in a school, church, or other public place.
For a rational counter argument and a source for all those liberal ignorant anti-gunners:
http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/an-opinion-on-gun-control/?year=2012&monthnum=12&day=20&like=1&_wpnonce=d6daaddd75&wpl_rand=460331ba9c
I love the way those idiots on the hot mic actually agreed with the NRA while thinking they were disagreeing.
“Who would be stupid enough to draw on the NRA at a press confrence though? LaPierre was probably packing.”
That is pretty much the point the NRA has been trying to get across since the beginning. The possibility that would be victims will shoot back is a great deterrence to the criminally minded.