Leaf Chronicle Editorial Calls for Reduction in Guns
What is the problem for the 19th Judicial Districts first Special Assistant U.S. Attorney General? According to The Leaf Chronicle of Clarksville and Fort Campbell the problem facing Samuel Knolton Jr. is guns and gangs. But in an editorial the paper calls for their to be a reduce in “gun crimes.”
Shouldn’t this be a call for a reduction in “gang crimes?” Get rid of the gangs and the gun problem associated with said gangs will easily be resolved. This is just another way of how the words are moved about to make a story seem more sensational. But we see that the blame is put on the firearms (illegal or otherwise), not the thugs that are using them.
Personal Liberty Digest Offers Some Interesting Gun Facts
More guns should equal more crime and more murders, at least that’s what the anti-gun zealots are trying to suggest, and far too often the mainstream media is quick to pick up on it – and run with it. But this week Personal Liberty Digest offered another take, looking at a variety of statistics, which actually suggest the opposite. There are more guns, but crime is down.
“Preliminary data from the Uniform Crime Report shows that the violent crime rate went down 5.5 percent nationwide in 2009. This covers all four categories of violent crime: murder, robbery, aggravated assault and forcible rape. Violent crime went down 4 percent in metropolitan counties and 3 percent elsewhere, according to the FBI.”
Let’s see how the anti-gun groups, such as the Brady Bunch try to spin this one.
New York Post Article Offers No Opposing View
While it is written to be a news article, a recent piece in The New York Post sounds a lot more like an editorial. It offers only anti-gun bias, and even makes bold statements without offering an opposing view to challenge it – and worse there is no actual proof this is a fact:
“Cops recovered 5,129 firearms from suspects last year, compared to 5,537 in 2008 — an 8 percent decline, according to a report by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Most of the guns came from states already roundly criticized by Mayor Bloomberg for being lax on background checks, including Virginia, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina and Florida.”
While the report may suggest this is true, is there actual proof the gun dealers were operating in those states? And even if true, isn’t this just proof that criminals will just go to any length to get a gun, or Mikey so naïve to believe that if all guns in America are banned that criminals will just give up?
Article Claims U.S. Guns Fueling Mexican Cartels, Lacks Any Counter-Point
It is heating up again. Not the actual drug war in Mexico, we’re talking about the media noting that American guns are fueling it. This is heating up again, and we’re still concerned it could have a major fallout north of the border. Las Cruces Sun-News offered a completely one-sided story on American guns traveling to Mexico, but ignored recent reports of military-grade firepower.
Interestingly the article even mentions how AK-47s were the guns of choice by some gunrunners. It is never made clear whether these guns were obtained legally or illegally, but instead just implies that this is all about gun shows and straw buyers. What also isn’t being mentioned by the media is whether it is even Americans who are doing this illegal gun running.
Gun Crime Problem in California
California has some of the worst gun laws in the country, at least for those law-abiding citizens who wish to own a firearm. But clearly the liberal leaning officials in the state must look the other way when criminals are involved with guns. This according to KGO-TV in San Francisco, which offers this take on gun crime in the City of Richmond:
“Thousands of bullets were taken off the streets of Richmond in just the past three months. Richmond police say they confiscate at least one gun each day and it is creating a backlog of cases which makes it harder to convict.
“When asked what happens if you get caught with a gun for the first time, Richmond resident Kenan Shackelford says, ‘Oh basically you get a slap on the wrist, you’re going home [with] an ankle monitor or maybe probation.’ He says he knows this because he just got out for armed robbery.”
We must ask, why are law-abiding citizens treated like criminals when it comes to gun rights in California, whilst the real criminals get a slap on the wrist and are sent home? This is the problem with the state of gun laws in this country, and it is clearly getting worse. Criminals do bad things with guns, but it is society at a whole that pays the price.
Chicago Columnist Offers Insight in Gun Crime in Chicago
In discussing how a legally purchased handgun was used in a grisly and tragic murder in the suburbs of Chicago, Daily Herald columnist Chuck Groudie offers a unique look at the gun debate. While he doesn’t exactly take sides, he does stress that this was also not a random case of violence. This was a case of pre-mediated murder, and one point Groudie doesn’t offer is that if the Kramer family had a gun they could have fought back.
Give his piece a read, and you decide whether a second legally purchased gun wouldn’t have meant a very different outcome.
Armed Police Patrols Up in London
The mainstream media in the United States typically reports that the U.K. has less gun crime, and often cites the fact that the police on the other side of the pond go around sans firearms. But the BBC is reporting that gun crime is on the rise.
This is worth noting, because ownership of firearms is strictly controlled. So to those gun-control types we ask, “where are the bad guys getting their guns?”
Rapper B.G. is Hopeful in Gun Case? Seriously?
What is with MTV? Can’t the liberal-minded “music” network see the writing on the wall, or at least its own Web site? While reporting about rapper, in an article titled ”B.G. Is Optimistic About Gun-Possession Case,” the news channel starts out by saying:
“This week, B.G. saw his friend Lil Boosie sent to jail after violating probation on a gun charge. His former Hot Boys bandmate Lil Wayne is expected to be sentenced to a year in prison for gun possession too. And last week, B.G. himself was charged with illegal gun possession in New Orleans.”
While the mainstream media goes on and on about the “culture” of guns, the real danger is the culture of violence and the embracement of a gangster (or is that gangsta) lifestyle by men like B.G. Worse, when caught red-handed, B.G. is downright smug. To MTV he says:
“My lawyers told me, don’t worry about nothing, they got it. They gonna take care of it. The police report was written up real, real bad, so I feel good about it.”
Well B.G, we at FirearmsTruth do hope you get it, as in the jail time you deserve. You and your celebrity thug friends are bad news for those of us who are law abiding. We just can’t afford the lawyers who will tell, “don’t worry about nothing.”
Editorial From The Toledo Blade Presents Facts and Then Completely Ignores Them
Millions of people enjoy a beer after work. A few of those people over indulge and get behind the wheel and kill someone in a drunk driving related accident. So we should make it harder for anyone to buy a beer. Sounds harsh right? But that’s essentially what the editors of The Toledo Blade have said… if you take out beer and insert guns. In a recent editorial the paper states the facts up front:
“EVERY year, hundreds of thousands of people attend gun shows across the United States. Most buyers and sellers are peaceful, law-abiding citizens who enjoy hunting, shooting, or just collecting firearms.” Read more
Mexico and Canada Still in the News, What About Europe and Asia?
Throughout the summer the American mainstream media took time to report on how American made firearms were supposedly fueling a drug war in Mexico, while the incidents of shootings in Canada was about because of American hardware.
Meanwhile, very little has been picked up in the States on the thousands of firearms seized in Australia and China – two nations were gun ownership is either difficult or impossible. For the record, private gun ownership in Communist China is entirely banned. And at the same time, unfortunately crime is up in the U.K., with cities like Manchester seeing a significant increase in gun crime in the past decade. However, this hardly gets any play in the United States.
The reason is likely crystal clear. In China, and in the U.K., it isn’t American guns that are in the hands of criminals. So for the MSM there is no story.
