Ready, Aim...Fire the Liberal Media
1-3-2013
Let’s today contrast American perspectives of life and the value of freedom, as seen through the views of two people speaking on whether or not firearms should be further restricted in the United States. Keep reading. We also throw in yet another example of pure media hypocrisy on the matter.
Joshua Boston is a former Marine and Afghanistan veteran who believes that registration and further regulation will lead to confiscation. In a letter now going viral to Senator Dianne Feinstein regarding her push to once again further regulate firearms (assault weapons bill II), Boston writes:
“Senator Dianne Feinstein,
I will not register my weapons should this bill be passed, as I do not believe it is the government’s right to know what I own. Nor do I think it prudent to tell you what I own so that it may be taken from me by a group of people who enjoy armed protection yet decry me having the same a crime. You ma’am have overstepped a line that is not your domain. I am a Marine Corps Veteran of 8 years, and I will not have some woman who proclaims the evil of an inanimate object, yet carries one, tell me I may not have one.
I am not your subject. I am the man who keeps you free. I am not your servant. I am the person whom you serve. I am not your peasant. I am the flesh and blood of America.
I am the man who fought for my country. I am the man who learned. I am an American. You will not tell me that I must register my semi-automatic AR-15 because of the actions of some evil man.
I will not be disarmed to suit the fear that has been established by the media and your misinformation campaign against the American public.
We, the people, deserve better than you.
Respectfully Submitted,
Joshua Boston
Cpl, United States Marine Corps
2004-2012”
Donald Kaul is an editorial writer for The Des Moines Register who wrote the following several days ago in the wake of the mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
“California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said she was going to introduce a bill to ban the sale and importation of assault weapons. Great, but the bill wouldn’t apply to weapons already out there, and in defining illegal weapons, it listed more than 900 exceptions.
Nine hundred!
The thing missing from the debate so far is anger — anger that we live in a society where something like the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre can happen and our main concern is not offending the NRA’s sensibilities.
That’s obscene. Here, then, is my “madder-than-hell-and-I’m-not-going-to-take-it-anymore” program for ending gun violence in America:
- Repeal the Second Amendment, the part about guns anyway. It’s badly written, confusing and more trouble than it’s worth. It offers an absolute right to gun ownership, but it puts it in the context of the need for a “well-regulated militia.” We don’t make our militia bring their own guns to battles. And surely the Founders couldn’t have envisioned weapons like those used in the Newtown shooting when they guaranteed gun rights. Owning a gun should be a privilege, not a right.
- Declare the NRA a terrorist organization and make membership illegal. Hey! We did it to the Communist Party, and the NRA has led to the deaths of more of us than American Commies ever did. (I would also raze the organization’s headquarters, clear the rubble and salt the earth, but that’s optional.) Make ownership of unlicensed assault rifles a felony. If some people refused to give up their guns, that “prying the guns from their cold, dead hands” thing works for me.
- Then I would tie Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, our esteemed Republican leaders, to the back of a Chevy pickup truck and drag them around a parking lot until they saw the light on gun control.
And if that didn’t work, I’d adopt radical measures. None of that is going to happen, of course. But I’ll bet gun sales will rise.”
Also in the wake of Sandy Hook, this piece of pure hypocrisy, according to ABC and numerous reliable sources:
The New York newspaper that printed a map with all of the names of residents who have handgun permits has hired armed security to patrol its headquarters.
According to the report, “The Journal News, which covers Rockland, Westchester, and Putnam Counties in New York, faced a backlash from readers after publishing the names of residents who had handgun permits registered to their names. The newspaper created an interactive map which showed permit owners’ names and addresses, which they posted on Dec. 23, 2012, as part of their coverage of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.
The Gannett-owned paper received a wave of angry comments in which readers published the names and addresses of reporters and editors at the paper.
Caryn McBride, the Rockland editor for the newspaper, filed a report with the Clarkstown police about the “negative correspondence” received by the newspaper in response to the map.
On Dec. 28, she reported that she received an email from an unknown sender who wrote that he “wondered what McBride would get in her mail now.”
The email did not contain any specific threats, and did not constitute an offense, according to a Clarkstown police report obtained by ABC News.
The report also noted that RGA Investigations, a private security firm, had been hired by the paper to perform security services in the wake of the controversy.
The company’s “employees are armed and will be on site during business hours through at least January 2, 2013,” the report said.
No security problems have been reported at the newspaper’s offices.
The Journal News did not return messages seeking comment. They previously released a statement to ABC News defending their decision to publish the map.
‘We obtained the names and addresses of Westchester and Rockland residents who are licensed to own handguns through routine Freedom of Information law requests. We also requested information on the number and types of guns owned by permit holders, but officials in the county clerks offices in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties maintained that those specifics were not public record,’ the statement read.”
Like we said, Ready, aim...fire the liberal media. Don’t buy it, and do not buy advertising in it. Keep tabs on it though, when you can get it for free.
You may though, want to link to “Firearms” and read On Wisconsin Outdoors’ firearms columnist Robb Manning’s December 28, 2012 column, “Assault Weapons Ban II-What you need to know.”
Thanks for connecting with On Wisconsin Outdoors. Shoot straight. “The media rarely does.”
Dick Ellis