Finally, a good article about guns.

[gunnutery]

I just saw this on foxnews.com as their main article. I won't post the whole article because it's kind of long, but it's originally from the AP and it seems to be fairly ballanced. Enjoy.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/12/states-ease-restrictions-gun-laws/

 

[Defense Minister]

Here is an excerpt from an AP article concerning the rise in police shooting deaths in 2009 over 2008. Following is a link to the entire article.

The availability of guns compounds the problem, criminologists say. But Pennsylvania, the state with the most gun-related officer deaths so far this year, has among the strictest gun laws in the country, according to a ranking by the pro-gun-control Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Other states, like Louisiana, Oklahoma and Kentucky, have very little oversight and had few, if any, officer gun deaths this year.

Kevin Morison, a spokesman for the Officers Memorial Fund, which keeps the statistics, said he sees people on both sides of the gun debate using the numbers to prove points.

"But folks who are willing to intentionally target police officers seem to be able to find a way to accrue guns regardless of what the laws in those state would be," Morison said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34394121/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts

 

[owlhoot]

Gunnutery, I guess I'm just a grumpy old man, but when I read that article earlier, I was a little angry with Fox because I thought the article was decidedly slanted in favor of the Brady crowd.

 

[gunnutery]

Perhaps I read it differently or with rose colored glasses on, but I still think it was better than the usual drivel that news sources spew out. I agree that they spent more time talking with the other side of the fence but the other side didn't really have any great arguments.

 

[THE DARK KNIGHT]

I have no idea why in 2009, with all the leaps and bounds of technology (we're now at the point where a typical, affordable cell phone has full web browsing, audio, video, and camera capabilities) people still watch or even care about the alphabet soup of news on TV, or even the radio, and certainly not print. We are at the point where there is essentially no need to rely on some dweeb anchor to give us news with a bunch of slanted messages. We can get accurate, first hand accounts from multiple, ground level, non-corporate/organization affiliated entities in seconds from our pocket.

When that plane went down over the Hudson River, it was reported and available to the WORLD in 8 seconds. ABC? CBS? FOX? CNN? Nope. Some guy with a camera phone and twitter.

Why does the TV news still matter in our society at all? Is it a generational thing, maybe the older crowd? What is it?

 

[ants]

I certainly don't find the Internet any more reliable than the network/cable news, nor the newspaper, nor periodical magazines.

 

[THE DARK KNIGHT]

I certainly don't find the Internet any more reliable than the network/cable news, nor the newspaper, nor periodical magazines.

No? I can find like 20 sources for the same thing, ranging from official sources to some guy on the street who saw it.

Look at it this way. I learned tons about guns. From regular joe's posting on forums, no fancy magazines. Why would news be any different?

 

[Sam1911]

Any article that states that PA has "among the strictest gun control laws in the country" has lost journalistic credibility immediately.

Ah, ha! I misunderstood, as PA borders NJ, MD, and NY, then -- geographically at least -- it is among the strictest gun control laws in the country!

LOL!

-Sam

 

[danprkr]

made it illegal to ask job candidates whether they own a gun

Was this really an issue? That's scary. Glad I live in TX where the exchange would've gone like this, "So, do you own guns?"

"Yes sir."

"What kind?"

"Mostly handguns, fond of the 1911 style."

"I'm a rifle man myself, but to each his own. Now, how much experience do you have building widgets?"