Yahoo! News pro-gun?

[theautobahn]

I was pleasantly surprised this morning when a quick perusal of Yahoo news had these two articles. Obviously I wasn't pleasantly surprised by the death toll in the second article, but not only did both articles not come across as anti-gun, they actually leaned the other way:

http://news.yahoo.com/calls-gun-control-stir-little-support-132319718.html

and

http://news.yahoo.com/colo-authorities-identify-final-rampage-victims-224522288.html

specifically this:

After graduating from high school in Reno, Nev., victim Jonathan Blunk, 26, of Aurora, Colo., served in the Navy between 2004 and 2009 and most recently worked at a hardware store, according to close friend James Gill of Brighton, Colo.

Blunk had plans to re-enlist with a goal of becoming a Navy SEAL, said Gill, who lived with Blunk several years in the Navy and later in Aurora.

Gill described his friend as an avid outdoorsman and gun rights advocate.

"Pretty much every weapon the guy in the theater used he owned," Gill said. "If you asked if he was still alive, he would have said his only regret is he didn't have his sidearm with him and he couldn't do anything to stop him."

 

[BK]

Those are both AP articles. Yahoo is merely posting them like so many other sites are.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/21/Calls-for-gun-control-stir-little-support
http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_21131985/advocates-call-gun-control-stirs-little-support
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/calls-gun-control-stir-support-16827298
http://www.woai.com/news/local/stor...le-support/mpaXCl9B10uzuGg8kicJiQ.cspx?rss=68
http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2012/07/21/calls-for-gun-control-stir-little-support

 

[HOOfan_1]

What ticks me off the most is that I have read posts by antis shaking their finger at the right wingers for "exploiting the death of Zapata and being partisan *expletive*"

Yet every time there is a mass shooting, they come out of the woodwork and start crying for more gun control. They even made a freaking movie out of it 'Bowling for Columbine". If there has ever been a more hypocritical group, I can't think of it.

They never seem to want to focus on the other issue...mental illness. It wouldn't be right to deny the rights of mentally ill people by making their records more open...so why not just deny the rights of thousands by taking away gun rights.

Let's not forget the fact that you are far far far far far more likely to die in a car accident going home than you are to ever even be wounded in a mass shooting event. Without even doing any research (hey the anti-gunners don't have to do research...) I bet you are more likely to get struck by lightning than get shot in a mass shooting event.

I would not be surprised at all to find out that most shooting deaths in the US are either drug related or done by close acquaintances of the victim. I doubt banning guns altogether would stop a majority of those homicides.

 

[mljdeckard]

.....um, I dunno. I didn't get such a non-anti-gun feel from them, so much as frustration that they know they don't dare oppose us.

 

[theautobahn]

Those are both AP articles. Yahoo is merely posting them like so many other sites are.

Right - but Yahoo, a (I don't have the numbers but would imagine) very popular news website has chosen to post the articles - as opposed to other articles available from the AP that are much more anti.

 

[Nico Testosteros]

The death of Zapata? I must have missed something.

 

[HOOfan_1]

The death of Zapata? I must have missed something.

I meant Brian Terry, but Jamie Zapata's death is also linked to Fast and Furious supposedly

http://grumpyelder.com/?p=17858