NPR:"gun control laws are ESSENTIAL to most big law enforcement operations."

[wacki]

Interesting story about Cheney vs. Bush here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88325808

Now, what I'm interested in is the way this reporter ended this interview by saying "gun control laws are ESSENTIAL to most big law enforcement operations." The emphasis was hers and whole statement seemed to be unrelated to the story.

I'm trying to figure out how most law enforcement operations would crumble if Cheney got his wish with respect to the second amendment.

 

[akodo]

Listen again

She is saying 'cake and eat it too is one argument as to why X, a second argument some folks are making as to why X is...(insert your quote here)"

That's when she mentions the line you quote. She is not stating it herself, she is reporting that is what many others are claiming.

She is right.

DC states the handgun ban is essential to prevent waves of shooting, as does Chicago, and this is basically the same thing all anti-CCW groups say. "if we allow guns, it will be a wild west of everyone shooting everyone, ergo, no guns for you peasants is essential for law enforcement purposes'


X being the bush/cheney opposite stance on the heller case back in march

 

[Deus Machina]

DC states the handgun ban is essential to prevent waves of shooting, as does Chicago, and this is basically the same thing all anti-CCW groups say. "if we allow guns, it will be a wild west of everyone shooting everyone, ergo, no guns for you peasants is essential for law enforcement purposes'

I love hearing that on the news. It always means the antis are on their last leg in some argument or another.

I remember when they enacted the 'stand your ground' law here in FL, and people were claiming that exact thing. And then it happened and crime dropped a significant percent. What happened to the OK Corral scenarios, huh?

 

[Standing Wolf]

What happened to the OK Corral scenarios, huh?

Still big news on leftist extremist TV. Think of it as a small, but stable industry that doesn't employ very many people, but does rake in quite a few dollars every time it trots out a new batch of regurgitated fear.

 

[JohnBT]

What's wrong with the O.K. Corral scenario? The good guys won.

 

[Libertarian52]

What's wrong with the O.K. Corral scenario? The good guys won.

Not according to that episode of "Star Trek".

I've always wondered why they chose the Cowboys over the Earps?

 

[MiddleAgedKen]

"gun control laws are ESSENTIAL to most big law enforcement operations."

Feature.

III

 

[femoralis]

I heard ~2 NPR stories on Heller v. DC. They either mocked Heller's side or had quotes only from persons favoring DC. They are garbage.

 

[ArmedBear]

gun control laws are ESSENTIAL to most big law enforcement operations."

Well, that's true.

Waco, for example.

I'm trying, however, to figure out why "most big law enforcement operations" are a good thing. It's hard to think of many that aren't launched to enforce malum prohibitum.

Of course, finding a ring of bank robbers or busting an extortion racket can be "big law enforcement operations", however gun control is not an essential part of them.

 

[Halo]

Malum prohibitum, I learned a new term today. "Wrong because it is illegal" -- I agree, "big law enforcement operations" are mostly are for the enforcement of such. There's a disturbing love affair with large and active government agencies, from both ends of the political spectrum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malum_prohibitum

 

[ilbob]

What's wrong with the O.K. Corral scenario? The good guys won.

Did they? It was more like a couple street gangs duked it out. Neither side was really that "good".

 

[Pat McCoy]

Remember, the gunfight at the OK Corral was about the "law" represented by the Earp side, wanted to disarm the "riff-raff" represented by the Clanton side.

It was one of the early issues with not allowing open carry in the west.

(Other underlying issues may have ben involved, but it was basically "the law" disarming those who had not committed any wrongdoing).

 

[searcher451]

Quote:
I heard ~2 NPR stories on Heller v. DC. They either mocked Heller's side or had quotes only from persons favoring DC. They are garbage.

I heard several NPR stories regarding the D.C. v. Heller case and can't remember a one-sided or anti report. This one is a good example. NPR does a solid job of staying neutral in its reporting, day after day. It's too bad that all media outlets aren't as competent as the NPR folks.

 

[psyopspec]

Searcher451, we must be tuning in to different stations. The NPR I listen too is often, but not always, a mouth piece for the left. At their best, some reports can go by without an obvious bias, but with most of the people they invite to interview you can just about hear the reporter and the interviewee giving one another knowing nods to acknowledge how "progressive" they are.

 

[romma]

Now, what I'm interested in is the way this reporter ended this interview by saying "gun control laws are ESSENTIAL to most big law enforcement operations."

Too bad for them. Our rights come before conveniencing law enforcement.

 

[cornman]

"Still big news on leftist extremist TV."

Sorry, but there is no such thing. Right wing TV exists, Corporate TV exists, but no extreamist/ leftist TV have I ever seen in 50+ years. But these days reporting facts that are not popular is considered leftist I suppose.

 

[SpeedAKL]

NPR is a mouthpiece for the elitist wing of the Democratic Party, so I'm not surprised they'd be stridently anti-gun.

 

[searcher451]

You say potato, and I say baloney, and what does it matter? We can sit here and argue the merits of NPR and other news organizations until the cows come home, and it won't change your opinion or mine or anyone else's, most likely. If, for example, you believe that Fox is "fair and balanced," then you probably won't like NPR. But that also doesn't mean that a) Fox is fair and balanced, or that b) NPR is "stridently anti-gun" or a "mouthpiece for the elitist wing of the Democratic party" (whatever that means).

Let's keep in mind that the original post here was not a debate about the merits of NPR; that non sequiter was injected 7 posts later. I found the report to be both fair and balanced, and I like that when the news media take on issues surrounding the 2nd Amendment. If you did not, that's OK, too.

 

[Mastiff]

Searcher451, we must be tuning in to different stations. The NPR I listen too is often, but not always, a mouth piece for the left. At their best, some reports can go by without an obvious bias, but with most of the people they invite to interview you can just about hear the reporter and the interviewee giving one another knowing nods to acknowledge how "progressive" they are.

The American Enterprise Institute is not a left wing organization, and they are all over NPR. I don't believe you listen very much to NPR, they are "Fair and Balanced" unlike Fox News. They have to be, they get a significant portion of their funding from the Feds.