http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD7vnGe-1HY
By B.
The New York Times never misses an opportunity to tell its readers that guns are bad. How best to do that? By waving a convenient bloody shirt, of course. In other words, taking advantage of a tragedy and heightened emotions to push their agenda. In this case, world famous sprinter, Oscar Pistorius — aka “The Blade Runner” — allegedly shot his super model girlfriend four times, killing her. Bingo! Another tragedy that fits well with the NYT view that guns in the hands of ordinary citizens are bad. So . . .
why not use it to their advantage? Never mind that the Olympic runner might have had anger management issues and, in a crime of passion, killed his girlfriend with a knife, cricket bat, hammer gun. He murdered his girlfriend.
In a case of comparing apples to oranges, the NYT has chosen to subliminally show its readers what they, the NYT wants them to see. Guns are bad. If they are bad in SA, they must therefore be bad in the USA. So they provide some dubious sources and attempt to show that homicides with guns have dropped in the past decade in SA. Proof positive, therefore, that SA’s Firearms Control Act of 2004 is working.
From the Times’ piece:
Adele Kirsten of Gun-Free South Africa, an organization opposing gun violence, said that whatever the motive, the shooting was avoidable. “The idea that you have a gun to protect your family against intruders, the data doesn’t bear that out,” Ms. Kirsten said. “What it tells us is that having a gun in your home puts you and your family at risk of being shot.”
Homicides involving guns have declined in South Africa in the past decade, Ms. Kirsten said, a development many here attribute to the Firearms Control Act of 2004.
What a credible and unbiased source they have chosen for us sheeple to read. Yes, Ms. Kirsten, the shooting was avoidable. The murder however, was not. He wanted to kill her and, judging but the four shots, he wanted to make sure she was dead. That’s some deep seated anger there. The kind that transcends the means and manifests itself as pure motive.
He wanted her dead and absent a gun, he would have used something else, such as a knife. If he’d used a blade, would we now be talking about how having a knife in the home increases your family’s chances of being stabbed? Probably not.
The NYT then goes on to cite some unreferenced “facts” to show the joyful effects of the 2004 FCA.
The overall murder rate has dropped by 50 percent since its peak in the late 1990s, and the number of women killed by intimate partners using a gun has also dropped. In 2009, 17 percent of such intimate partner killings were gun-related, down from nearly 31 percent in 1999.
Makes me almost want to move to SA. Except that I don’t. Because no matter what the Times’ sources may be telling them, the State Department has given South Africa’s major cities its highest rating of ‘critical’ for the rampant crime there.
The Times wants you to believe that gun control will work equally well here, too. Subliminally. So they have to feed their readers a steady diet of anti-gun propaganda thinly disguised as a news stories. They need examples of where gun control works. Only they can’t point to the UK, Europe’s most violent country. That’s old news. But using South Africa to sell civilian disarmament is proving to be a tough sell. So here the would like you believe that SA is proof that gun control works. Never mind that there’s an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to Crime South Africa. Even the left leaning allafrica.com is skeptical.
After showing how firearms deaths have declined since the FCA’s implementation, they have to give up the farce and begrudgingly admit, in smaller print that
Up until 2007, firearms overshadowed other external causes of non-natural violent deaths such as sharp force injuries, burns and strangulations, amongst others, but in that year, sharp force injuries overtook firearms as the leading cause of non-natural violent deaths.
So lets connect the dots. As the gun crime went down, other forms of crime went up. Drastically. But hey, gun crime is down, and that’s a good thing, right? Wrong. Just ask the increasing numbers of rape and sexual assault victims there. Or maybe the white farmers in SA can tell Americans how much they like being disarmed?
In order to be intellectually honest, All Africa has to acknowledge that the facts they obtained to show declining gun crime came from the South African Police Service (SAPS)
It must be noted that while the SAPS data is not considered the most reliable source on crime data, as victims often do not report crimes to the SAPS for varying reasons. Nonetheless, the data collected by the SAPS still provides a fairly good indication of the crimes and acts of violence taking place within South Africa.
Translation: Our data sucks and is probably not accurate, but it shows what we want it to show, so we’ll use it to push our agenda. We can put a positive spin on it by saying it’s all we bothered to use as a source the best we have have, so it’ll work for the purposes for which we need it.
In the fight to preserve our Second Amendment rights, we have to see articles like the Times’ piece for what they are: propaganda. The kind that slowly works its way into the subconscious of their readers. planting the seed of disarmament. I’m not worried about the Armed Intelligensia who have the experience to put stories like these in perspective. And I’m not even worried about the legions of limousine liberals in New York who lap up the NYT’s propaganda like $350 a plate caviar.
I am worried, though, about readers who don’t always look deeper into the story, think the NYT must be credible because, after all, it’s the New York Times and thus, think they’re actually reading the “news”. This kind of bait and switch is a favorite tactic, not only the NYT, but most of the mainstream media as a whole and consistently run examples of the “wisdom” of gun control without actually showing the flip side — that crime itself marches on. With or without guns. The only question now is, do you want to be an armed citizen or a disarmed victim?
I quit on CTD because they abandoned the entire gun owning community when chips were down and not for their jacked up prices.
What I like even less are those people who claim to support free markets and then whine like a bunch of *itchy little girls when the market works as it should in the face of panic buying.
California-ized.
To all who think there is a legislative-voting solution to this in CA, NY, NJ (not sure about CO), you are wrong. The demographics speak for themselves. You think with all these immigrants (who LOVE their slavery) that you’re going to change the composition of the state houses? What a joke! The only thing to do is contribute to SAF in the hopes scotus will void mag restrictions, grant shall-issue and semi-autos before the cancer spreads. AND BRING NEW SHOOTERS INTO THE FOLD. All you ammo horders are making the last point impossible right now, doing the anti’s work for them. FU.
Well one more state to add on the list. This is gonna be a long cold civil war.
Isn’t there some kind of evidence to suggest that Pistorius beat her with a cricket bat first?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-2280316/Oscar-Pistorius-beaten-Reeva-Steenkamp-cricket-bat-shooting-her.html
…yes, the Daily Mail? great source for me to site here…but the question exists. If Pistorius played a quick inning off the side of her skull before grabbing a pistol, does that not mean that he was bent on the outcome regardless of means? Or is that kind of thinking just too logical for the NYT?
“yes, the Daily Mail? great source for me to site here”
You probably get more real news from a tabloid than you will get from the prestige media. Outfits like the Daily Mail will probably outlast Dodo bird media like The New York Times, which is in danger of flat lining at any moment. The only people who still believe NYT is the newspaper of record are the editorial board of the NYT, and who cares about them.
How did all those lib-tards take control of Colorado??? I thought Colorado was mostly rural.
*5 minutes after the interview ended, overheard from the last neighbor on tape*
“Ye-ah, I stole dat shiznit!”
I admit though, Vanilla Ice is an eloquent speaker!
Could you imagine having that idiot for a neighbor? Could you imagine going to parents night at your kid’s school and seeing this guy, not as one of your kid’s peers but as one of YOUR peers? What was he like,”Oh shiznit honey, the television news crews are outside, I gots to go represent for our HOA. Let me make sho my hat is juuust perfect, okey dokey, I’ve got the perfect 33 degree angle offset to the right side (because I’m representing Brentwood yo…)” I wonder if he thinks of himself as a full grown adult. He probably thinks his kids respect him because they think he’s “with it”, or,”wid it”.
The issue about business practices and customer service, independent if political statements, appear to remain.
Well personally I feel like Mr. Frum is a Freaking Idiot!!! Just my opinion of course. Having survived two home invasions I would like to point out that both times it was illegal in those states to carry an open or concealed handgun. Had I not been in my home I probably wouldn’t be here today. And that Mr. Frum is why we have the God given and Constitutionally Protected right to keep and bear arms!!!
Are we losing to the million mom march? If they were winning would they be this desperate? ny had to push through it laws fast & furiously for fear of rational discussion. I’m not saying we should let off, just keep on doing what we are because it seems to be working. We are going to have the losses, hopefully just temporary ones. Lastly, I’d buy Josefin a drink at the night club & even offer to rub her back for her, & to think there are some that thought I was a beast, Randy
Reddit is keeping track of a lot of DGU’s
http://www.reddit.com/r/dgu/
My cam-corder is a VHS-C which tells you that it is a dozen years old. This little puppy sure looks like a great update for my kind of use. I had ZERO ide that I could get a video camera that small, that rugged for that kind of money. I guess I need to get out more. Anyhow, thanks for the GREAT review on this!
damned recaptcha thing.
killed my post.
So, here’s the short version…
Dems will mobilize the college students with “feelings” and “fairness”.
Repubs will mobilize the religious zealots with “no gay marriage”.
I’ll vote Libertarian again, my vote will be wasted, & I’ll be stuck with liberal idiots.
Got this in an e-mail a while back. Thought it might be relevant…..
FACTS TO PONDER :
(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are120,000.
(Calculation) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.
Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health Human Services
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Now think about this:
Guns:
(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000.
(Yes, that’s 80 million..)
(B) The number of accidental gun death per year, all age groups, is 1,500.
(Calculation) The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .000188.
Statistics courtesy of FBI
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So, statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
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Remember, ‘Guns don’t kill people, doctors do.’
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FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.
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Please alert your friends to this alarming threat.
We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!!!
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Out of concern for the public at large, I withheld the statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical attention.