Christian Science Monitor Looks to Extremes

Better late than never, but this week the Christian Science Monitor - a paper that has not shied away from its biased anti-gun stance – posted an editorial with the ominous title “Guns at presidential events: encouraging extremists?” This is fear mongering plain and simple. Not once has the mainstream media taken the approach, “see guns can be out in public and no one was hurt.”

Instead the CSM, as well as the rest of the mainstream media, offer this opinion:

“So far, the gun-wielding protesters have been too far removed from the president to pose any threat. But experts say this new phenomenon of guns at public events may require adjustments in how the president operates.

“The threat, they say, is not necessarily the gun-carrying protesters themselves. Rather, their actions could embolden the nation’s angriest fringe. The specter of so-called ‘lone wolf” acts of violence is already high on the nation’s law enforcement agenda.”

Even the choice of words, “so far,” suggests that something bad just has to happen. And exactly who are these “experts?” Would this happen to be the Brady Center or some other anti-gun organization?

But to another point that the MSM has failed to point out: guns are all over the place anytime the president travels. Isn’t it better to have the protesters carry their guns openly (if they can do so legally of course)? The Secret Service detail, as well as the other security, looks for threats constantly. And there is no shortage of guns in the audience from those who are the guards. So again, who guards the guards?