Got AKs?
One of my favorite newspapers in Utah is the Tooele Transcript. The name alone describes the journalistic aggressiveness of the voice of Utah's "Gateway to Chemical* and Biological Weapons Research."
The newspaper covered the jump in sales of so-called assault weapons following Barack Obama's election. The fear is that Obama and Nancy Pelosi will reinstate the Federal Assault Weapons Ban. The long and the short: No semiautomatic assault weapons or bottomless ammunition clips sold to Joe Sixpack.
The Transcript article included the gun merchants' usual "they're flying off the shelves" sales pitch to the suckers:
I have been getting phone calls from all over the state for the kind of guns that may become harder to get. We are trying to get some of them in before the ban, but not many people have them in stock.What was different from the other stories on the gun run is that the Transcript did not include one dissenting, or even skeptical, voice.
It did include an illogical quote from a volunteer Grantsville hunter safety teacher:
As part of a hunter safety group, you can’t help but be worried that people might not be able to purchase certain guns, and that the price of ammunition will become more expensive too.If I'm following his thinking — access to assault weapons and cheap ammo increases gun safety? Would a math wiz care to run the probabilities on that?
*The poison gas has been almost entirely incinerated, sigh.
3 Comments:
Frankly Glen, I don't think you're following his thinking at all, unless there's some context to his quote that you haven't given us. Just because he's a hunter's safety instructor doesn't mean he was talking about gun safety when he made that comment.
As to whether or not certain guns being available makes us safer or less safe, it's a moot point.
I can't hammer on this enough to anti-gun folks. If you create new laws restricting guns, the only ones who will follow the laws are the law-abiding.
Criminals will always have access to whatever weapons they choose, and don't seem to give a rats ass about gun-laws.
As to the prevalence of "assault" type weapons being a criminal scourge, it's a myth. By far and away, most gun crimes are committed with handguns. And strangely enough, the Supreme Court has ruled specifically that you can't ban those.
Your sarcasm is strained again, Glen, which is why I rarely view your blog anymore. Way to wrap up the false preconceived notions about Tooele County, gun owners and the Transcript Bulletin all in one post. Happy blogging...
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black ...
Look at the one sidedness on the part of the Tribune when it comes to the gay-marriage issue. It is quite apparent where the Tribune stands (at least publicly) on the issue. It's owner (Singleton) may actually be against it; however, all the coverage (pro-gay) brings a lot of people to it's website to bitch and moan ... and in-turn, generates advertising revenue.
You guys (Tribune) are no different than any other newspaper. All newspapers are just mouthpieces for their owners' objectives - be it to make money (Singleton), espouse conservative views (DesNews) or espouse liberal views (NY Times).
There is no such thing as unbiased "news" in the US; all of it is tainted in one way or another.
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