With Gun Metaphors Like These . . .
Sports writers have a lot more leeway than reporters covering any other topic. They're about as likely to provide straight reporting as a gay man is to masturbate to a picture of Marissa Miller....
Have You Noticed That The Media Turns Off Comments for Gun-Related Stories?
Gun owners are a fairly vocal group of people. Well, some of them are. And the ones that are, really are. When The Huffington Post takes a proverbial swing at gun owners' rights (or...
How Not To Report a Gun-Related Story: Iowa’s New Domestic Abuse Gun Confiscation Law
According to KIMT reporter Natalie Tendall's official bio, "she loved to play news reporter as a child." Judging from her article Domestic Abuser Gun Bill Reaction, she's still playing at being one now. Tendall...
That Didn’t Take Long: Tea Party “Debate” Focuses on Guns
Counterpunch columnist Christopher Ketchum confounds critics with an anti-Tea Party polemic that attempts to wrest Second Amendment rights from the protest group's agenda---while continuing the media meme that they're all trigger-happy madmen (and women)....
Question of the Day: Are Armed Teachers the Answer to Spree Shooters?
The "gun debate" has two sides. On one side, gun control advocates believe that eliminating firearms from society (legal or illegal) makes it safer ("guns don't kill people; people with guns kill people"). On...
Question of the Day: Do Guns Have To Be So Macho?
Earlier this morning, I posted on a Huffington Post polemic by ex-federal judge H. Lee Sarokin. The New Jersey native painted gun owners as violent, pig-ignorant southerners. The portrait was unfair. Prima facie. It...
Romney: Palin is Armed and Dangerous
Ha! We SO knew that! Well, actually, not exactly. The only gun we can positively identify as belonging to Republican ex-Governor and non-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is the Henry Repeating Arms "Big Boy," which...
UK Rapper Plays the “Gun Crime Sucks” Card
Don't get me wrong. A rapper who says guns are bad is better than a rapper who glamorizes them. But a rapper who says guns are bad and glamorizes himself for surviving guns is...
Shooting Times Celebrates 50 Years of Handgun Innovations
It's hard to believe Shooting Times is about to pass the half century mark; I'd just turned zero when the mag was born. Bart Skelton marks the occasion with an article celebrating handgun innovation...
Canada Looks to Ditch Gun Registry
In 1989, Marc Lépine entered Montreal University's École Polytechnique engineering school armed with a Ruger Mini-14 and murdered 14 people. Six years after the École Polytechnique Massacre (a.k.a. The Montreal Massacre), the Canadian parliament...
Christian Science Monitor: 2nd Amendment Encourages Terrorism
The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) asks the right question about the recent McDonald Supreme Court case: "Do gun rights protect against tyranny?" And they quote the right person: Daniel Schmutter in a friend of...
YouTube “Guns Are Awesome” Video Approached 1m Views
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny9O7yAXK8g