Boston Globe Complains that Obama Hasn’t Followed Through on Gun Control
Finally, an editorial we like… sort of anyway. James Alan Fox of The Boston Globe ranted and raved that President Obama hasn’t followed through on one particular promise – that being gun control. While most of Fox’s rant is about the sale of illegal guns by licensed gun dealers, he offers this statement:
“Importantly, this is not a call for dismantling the Second Amendment or for infringing on the rights of legitimate gun owners.”
It is very hard to believe him when he also notes that the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence graded the President’s performance on gun-related matters with a “big fat ‘f.’” In other words, he seems to be allied with a group who would like to have all guns banned, and thus anything he says has to be taken with a grain of salt.
CBS News Loose With Facts on Gun Story, Cites 90 Percent Number Again
In a story posted on its Web site titled “Gun Laws Loosen in States, Even as Gun Policy Changes Little Under Obama,” writer Stephanie Condon is a little “loose” with the facts. The article includes this passage:
“‘This war is being waged with guns purchased not here, but in the United States,’ Mr. Obama said in Mexico City in April, 2009. ‘More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that line our shared border.’
“The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence said the administration’s plans to help Mexico fight drug cartels would be inadequate without new gun restrictions, but the administration’s call to reinstitute the Assault Weapons Ban went nowhere. The administration has also failed to close the gun show loophole.”
The problem with this statement is that the 90 percent number, as we’ve reported on for nearly a year, is that it is wrong. 90 percent of guns recovered in Mexico do NOT come from the United States. This story clearly has the typical mainstream media liberal agenda to present a message without presenting all the facts.
Firing Back: Turn Gun Control Into Crime Control
With voters in Massachusetts essentially giving Obama and his left-leaning agenda the finger, let’s hope the “Coakly pucker factor” stings like a cold slap in the face for every member of congress up for reelection. The message was clear: It’s time to shut up and listen.
The career politician are shaking in their boots, some, like Sen Chris Dodd, have given notice and are bailing on a Kamikaze-like democratic party that’s all about ideology and not about America.
Talk to your representatives, both democrat and republican and give them your thoughts, your opinions on foolish, wasteful anti-gun initiatives that slow or restrict an honest Americans right to own a firearm. Have them explain how restrictive firearms laws prevent criminals from purchasing guns? Ask them if they would feel safe walking the streets of Port Au Prince Haiti without armed security?
Gun control has proved a waste of time and resources. Perhaps its time to give Obama and his friends a chance an opportunity to move to the center on something!
AFP News Outlet Of Course Throws Biased Kicker
In a story that basically highlighted the fact that firearms sales are up this year, and cited the usual reasons including fear of new gun laws under President Obama, greater interest in hunting, and fears of recession-driven crime, the piece from AFP via Google News managed to still get in some bias. The story was basically about the recent Chantilly Gun Show, and thus just looking at why sales of firearms were up.
After covering both sides with reasonable fairness, the kicker of the story – the final sentence – throws in this for good measure:
“Meanwhile, 30,000 people a year are killed by gunfire in the United States.”
Nice to see that some writers just can’t keep the bias out.
With Off-Year Elections Tilting Right, Is Obama’s Eye Off Gun Owners?
With crushing defeats for the democratic party in the New Jersey and Virginia governors races, resistance by members of their own party towards health care and Cap-In-Trade legislation plus a deepening burden of the growing economic malaise, the Obama administration appears not to have gun owners in their sights with any new or significant anti-gun legislation. Obama has clearly demonstrated that he and his administration live and govern by poll results and recently those once positive numbers have started to tank.
In the back rooms of the White House, Obamaites sweat it out as they work to sanitize every facet of information clean of any culpability by the President as they begin to realize and believe that not all Americans are content to behave like sheep.
This administration, it’s leader and it’s entourage, were highly touted as “setting a new standard” for communication, transparency, openness and non-partisan governance. To that end they have certainly lowered the bar on almost every facet of Presidential decorum, with Obama leading perhaps the most corrupt batch of liberal politicians this nation has witnessed in power. On many accounts, Obama’s administration and his legion of advisors, appear more like a virtual amateur hour of blatant partisan extremists. Composted of liberals, socialists, anarchists, communists and “czars” Obama’s inner circle is filled with people who probably couldn’t organize a trip to the circus let alone manage the health care or be trusted to provide for the defense of 300 million people.
The administration has problems and the November 3rd election is the proof. With that in mind, the administration is going to tread carefully and and be cautious of the battles it wishes to wage. With political storm clouds swelling on the horizon in the form of a republican resurgence, it’s doubtful that the democrats as a party, the President included, would attempt any major anti-gun legislation prior to the 2010 mid-term elections.
I wonder what FT readers think? Give us your two cents.
CNN Weighs in on Gallup Poll
Thank you to Jack Cafferty at CNN.com, who so far is among the only major voices in the mainstream media to address that President Obama has been a critic of guns. While the MSM has repeatedly pushed the story that Obama hasn’t signed new legislation or actually even said much about guns, Cafferty reminds us that the POTUS isn’t a friend of the gun lobby:
“Nonetheless, gun rights advocates point to Mr. Obama’s record as a state legislator and U.S. senator where he ‘voted for the most stringent forms of gun control.’”
But we must disagree a bit with Cafferty on the point he makes on gun and ammunition sales, when he cites the Gallup poll that found that a “majority” (Cafferty’s word) of gun owners feared that Obama would take their guns:
“It also helps explain the sharp increases in sales of guns and ammunition.”
Why hasn’t anyone in the MSM addressed that the MSM keeps talking about ammo shortages. This is probably why the ammo shortage continues! Stop talking about it, and sales could fall.
Opinion Piece Offers Really Absurd Opinion
There is an old saying that some things can be “short and sweet,” but maybe when it comes to how the mainstream media covers firearms, that should be “short and absurd.” Case in point, The Dayton Daily News offered this take on firearms and President Obama:
“It’s ironic that President Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 since, here in the United States, his presidency has caused soaring sales in guns, ammunition and concealed-carry schools.” Read more
Firing Back: Gun Laws are Strange and Ambiguous
The mainstream media has reported ever since President Obama took office that gun sales have spiked, along with the sale of ammunition. At the same time the MSM has repeated the usual line that the President isn’t pushing for any new gun laws. However, this isn’t to say that new laws haven’t been introduced in recent months. New York City continues to tighten its gun laws, while New Jersey’s governor signed into a law that allows for only one handgun a month to be purchased.
By banning, restricting or any other means of limiting firearms only hurts the legit owners, not the criminals. One example is that in New York City you couldn’t legally own a World War II Lee Enfield rifle. Why? Because it has a 10-round magazine. A double barrel shotgun is totally legal. Which do you think would be more popular with drug dealers and criminals looking to rob a store in the middle of the night?
So is there even a criminal market for Lee Enfields? These hardly seem suited to the modern criminal. And what about the handgun limits in NJ? Will criminals only buy one illegal handgun a month? Probably not. In the end, only those who play by the rules, and follow the laws to the letter will be hurt by these sort of gun laws.
Crain’s Business: Better Late Than Never on Gun Sales Story
Do investors really trust Crain’s Business with up to date information on the world of business? It makes you wonder if this is the case after reading this past weekend’s piece titled “Post-election jump in gun, ammo sales eases, sellers say.”
For the record, the November elections are just two months away, so this story is about 10 months late I think. Of course even the introduction sounds like something you might have read… oh say, in January or February of this year:
“The ascension of a Democratic president and a Democratic-controlled Congress gave rise to fears among gun owners of renewed gun control efforts, with rumors of new taxes and tracking technology for ammunition fueling a rush on small-arms purchases and ammunition hoarding.”
Let’s hope this is the last we hear of this story. It should be solidly filed under “OLD NEWS.”
L.A. Times Says “Bull Market for Bullets”
File this one under “old new” but this weekend The Los Angeles Times ran a piece that say sales of ammunition have picked up since President Barrack Obama took office. This has been a story that has regularly circulated over the past seven months, and shows no sign of dying down.
Was it a slow news week? That doesn’t seem right. Teddy Kennedy passed away, hurricanes were heading to land in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, and the violence in Afghanistan has picked up. So why is this story that ammo is continuing to sell news?
Of course part of the problem is that these stories circulate, people are reminded that bullets are in short supply and thus they buy more when they can find it. This in turn increases sales, and spurs more stories. So maybe the real story isn’t that people are buying bullets out of fear of President Obama banning guns, but rather that the media is essentially convincing people to buy more bullets!
