WaPo Editorial Opinion Clearly Not “Smart”
As we’ve pointed many times editorials are not the same as news stories, and while we expect these to be biased, we don’t expect facts to be altered to make the point. In a recent Washington Post piece titled “Target: Illegal guns,” the editorial states:
“MAYORS AGAINST Illegal Guns, a bipartisan coalition of roughly 500 U.S. mayors, has been pushing for smart and sensible law enforcement solutions to reduce the number of illegal guns obtained by criminals or would-be criminals”
What exactly is smart or sensible about the law enforcement solutions? Is it sensible for a mayor in one city to attempt to change laws in another state? And maybe the WaPo thinks it is smart to have a prohibition on a constitutional amendment, which is what some of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns are doing. The fact is that these Mayors really are Mayors Against Guns, because they’re the ones that think they’re smart and believe that no guns means no crimes, someone assuming that criminals won’t find a way to acquire guns anyway. Now that’s not smart or sensible.
Kudos to The Kansas City Star for Setting the Record Straight
Here is one of those times we’re happy with what the mainstream media has to say on the issue of firearms. In an editorial The Kansas City Star calls out New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s zealot anti-gun group for what it really is…
”Bloomberg created ‘Mayors Against Illegal Guns’ as a front group to lobby Congress to oppose important pro-gun reforms and support new federal gun control restrictions. And some mayors have joined or been duped into joining this anti-gun Bloomberg crusade.”
WNYC Radio Has Nice Sound Bites, But Few Facts
By the way WNYC radio spun it, it sounds like NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg is really just a mayor with a reasonable gun control policy. Here is a sample of what he said:
“BLOOMBERG: There’s federal law that says that criminals can’t have guns and we should enforce that law and get guns off the streets nothing wrong with the Second Amendment.”
