March 17th US News and World Report Cover Story: The New Battle Over Guns

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Someone may have already started this thread, if not since I was in the airport at 6:15 a.m. U.S. News and World Report has article on whats going on with Gun Legislation. I just bought my copy at Wal-Mart, haven't read it yet...more to come.
 
For most of American history, courts have interpreted the Second Amendment to apply to the collective right of states to assemble groups of armed citizens, such as the National Guard. Nine federal circuit courts have upheld that position, and the Supreme Court favored it when it last considered the issue in the 1939 case. (While that decision upheld the federal regulation of an individual's use of sawed-off shotguns, it didn't directly address the scope of the Second Amendment.)
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Really?

I didn't know that



But a ruling in favor of a restricted individual right—one that allowed some government regulation of guns—could, paradoxically, do more harm than good to the gun-rights lobby. An endorsement of individual rights would come as a moral victory, but support of restrictions could represent a loss; it could tacitly uphold most of the gun control legislation across the country.
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This could really be bad for us too.
 
The article seems to contain a lot of fundamental errors.
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I frequently have this experience with "journalism."

Whenever the MSM covers something that I have personal knowledge of, I am appalled at how very wrong they get the most basic of facts.

If they are uniformly as wrong about everything as they are about the subjects I'm well informed on, then just about everything we see/hear/read in the news is wrong.
 
If they are uniformly as wrong about everything as they are about the subjects I'm well informed on, then just about everything we see/hear/read in the news is wrong.
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That mirrors my own experiences with the media.

NukemJim
 
Today's journalists are usually motivated by a we can change the world mentality, so their opinions trump all else. And there's no point in letting facts get in the way of firmly held beliefs.
 
The mass media gets it wrong

It's been my experience also, that when ever it's a subject I'm well informed on I find no end of grievious errors in the mass media reports. And this includes stories with no political content. Aside from the obvious political bias, they seem to be a collection of ignoramuses.

I find somewhat the same effect in law making. I see a lot of obviously very bad laws passed. Are they doing any better on the ones I don't know about?
 
When stories come out about EMS calls I've been on, I wonder if they are talking about another similar incident, because the facts certainly don't fit my observations.
 
For most of American history, courts have interpreted the Second Amendment to apply to the collective right of states to assemble groups of armed citizens, such as the National Guard.
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I didn't know that either. Thankfully US Snooze and Wearily Bored is around to set me straight. :rolleyes::neener:
 
Only if "most of American History"" has taken place since 1963
 
You guys watch the video on the site?

There was a written part that said

"every night, officers in the unit patrol the streets in search of illegal guns."

wait a minute, you mean there are such things as illegal guns?

I also liked the fact that he said armed gunman are more bold than they used to be, by carrying their guns on them and using them at a first chance.
 
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