Did anyone else watch these three news shows? Each of them had nothing less than biased anti-gun agenda. I watched in dismay all the mis-information in the three stories this weekend and wish I'd had them all on DVR so I could go point by point through the stories and counter their attack on the truth and the 2nd amendment.
Beginning Friday night ABC's 20/20 had a report with really stupid examples of gun usage, ignorance and access. To me it expressed the need for more firearm education for young people not less familiarity. Whenever there is the potential for young kids to come in contact with firearms be it by accident or choice then they need to know what to do with it. What if they find a gun in a park where a gangbanger tossed it? It was clear the kids on the news story either never held a real firearm or were told what to do with them so as to look extra foolish. Also the artificial attacks set-up were not any type of real life example; when you have a highly trained officer rush into a room fired at newly trained kids, most of whom had no prior firearm experience what out come did the expect? It was not a news story, but an anti-gun, anti-constitutional, anti-American commercial. The examples were clearly inflammatory and absurd, but unfortunately much of the general public does not recognize when they are being fed a bill of goods. It was a clear attack against ownership and an attempt to sway public opinion by use of yellow journalism.
Then on Sunday morning TV the CBS program FACE THE NATION with Bob Scheiffer had Mexico's Ambassador complaining about all the guns coming from America into their country, where again false and ambiguous allegations about the types of guns going to the drug lords and not where they are really coming from like China, Russia, Venezuela, Argentina and Israel and no doubt some from America. But because they can't control their borders and got upset because we wanted to secure the borders to stop the flow of illegal drugs and immigrants now we are supposed to change our laws? Bob Scheiffer who normally does a good job, didn't press him. Bob lobbed up slow pitches and allowed Ambassador Arturo to respond and it looked like he was doing the bidding of our new President. He failed to mention many of the firearms used by the drug lords including the 50 caliber rifles were sold to the Mexican government by our Government to fight the war on drugs, but due to corruption many of the guns were sold or stolen from their Gov't and given to the drug lords.
Lastly was 60 minutes again making some one-sided allegations and assumptions trying to influence anti-gunners with their stories. They did allow a couple comments from a positive aspect of gunrights, but not equal time. They had the same kid that bought guns on 20/20 talking and he said on that show he paid $100 extra to buy a gun so he didn't have to show ID, but on 60minutes he said it was only $15.00. Of course he was able to buy the same type Glock pistol that killed his sister on the 20/20 show, but on 60 minutes he bought a more powerful version of the same Glock. While I'm sorry he lost his sister to an illegal gun owner, lying to obtain his agenda will not help his cause and further hurts honest gun owners.
I have Stats put together by an Anti-Gun group that shows more deaths during the assault ban during Clinton years, but the number of deaths dropped after GW Bush was elected and more folks were able to obtain CCW. Death by suicide is a number that need to be removed for gub death stats since most people who choose to kill themselves might use any means available if no gun is available. People wanting to hurt other may do just the same with a car by driving through a crowd. Not to mention twice the number of people killed by autos compared to guns each year.
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I wrote all the Senators last week and received a response from our Sen. Amy Klobuchar from MN. It says she's for more laws. I have also responded with comments to each of the three news programs noted above.
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Beginning Friday night ABC's 20/20 had a report with really stupid examples of gun usage, ignorance and access. To me it expressed the need for more firearm education for young people not less familiarity. Whenever there is the potential for young kids to come in contact with firearms be it by accident or choice then they need to know what to do with it. What if they find a gun in a park where a gangbanger tossed it? It was clear the kids on the news story either never held a real firearm or were told what to do with them so as to look extra foolish. Also the artificial attacks set-up were not any type of real life example; when you have a highly trained officer rush into a room fired at newly trained kids, most of whom had no prior firearm experience what out come did the expect? It was not a news story, but an anti-gun, anti-constitutional, anti-American commercial. The examples were clearly inflammatory and absurd, but unfortunately much of the general public does not recognize when they are being fed a bill of goods. It was a clear attack against ownership and an attempt to sway public opinion by use of yellow journalism.
Then on Sunday morning TV the CBS program FACE THE NATION with Bob Scheiffer had Mexico's Ambassador complaining about all the guns coming from America into their country, where again false and ambiguous allegations about the types of guns going to the drug lords and not where they are really coming from like China, Russia, Venezuela, Argentina and Israel and no doubt some from America. But because they can't control their borders and got upset because we wanted to secure the borders to stop the flow of illegal drugs and immigrants now we are supposed to change our laws? Bob Scheiffer who normally does a good job, didn't press him. Bob lobbed up slow pitches and allowed Ambassador Arturo to respond and it looked like he was doing the bidding of our new President. He failed to mention many of the firearms used by the drug lords including the 50 caliber rifles were sold to the Mexican government by our Government to fight the war on drugs, but due to corruption many of the guns were sold or stolen from their Gov't and given to the drug lords.
Lastly was 60 minutes again making some one-sided allegations and assumptions trying to influence anti-gunners with their stories. They did allow a couple comments from a positive aspect of gunrights, but not equal time. They had the same kid that bought guns on 20/20 talking and he said on that show he paid $100 extra to buy a gun so he didn't have to show ID, but on 60minutes he said it was only $15.00. Of course he was able to buy the same type Glock pistol that killed his sister on the 20/20 show, but on 60 minutes he bought a more powerful version of the same Glock. While I'm sorry he lost his sister to an illegal gun owner, lying to obtain his agenda will not help his cause and further hurts honest gun owners.
I have Stats put together by an Anti-Gun group that shows more deaths during the assault ban during Clinton years, but the number of deaths dropped after GW Bush was elected and more folks were able to obtain CCW. Death by suicide is a number that need to be removed for gub death stats since most people who choose to kill themselves might use any means available if no gun is available. People wanting to hurt other may do just the same with a car by driving through a crowd. Not to mention twice the number of people killed by autos compared to guns each year.
If you haven't already, please join the NRA https://membership.nrahq.org/forms/signup.asp
SAVE $10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MRjNVqdcPU (worth watching).
Or any pro-gun group you feel can make a difference in addition to
I wrote all the Senators last week and received a response from our Sen. Amy Klobuchar from MN. It says she's for more laws. I have also responded with comments to each of the three news programs noted above.
An NRA Lifetime Member
