I really get incredibly tired of the incessant, never ending, unstated bias of Public Radio.
I’m paraphrasing here but when they are talking about the upcoming march on Washington they say thing like it ‘might get some progress made on this issue’ as though it’s obvious to everyone that more restrictions on guns is ‘progress’.
If you ever suggested to them allowing suppressors or doing away with ‘gun free zones’ or loosening the restrictions on concealed carry might be 'progress' I think they literally would not understand you, as though you were speaking Greek or you were a ‘flat earther’.
The phrase
‘common sense’ has been so perverted and twisted its definition has run away and is hiding out in some other part of the dictionary.
Also:
1. The ‘18 shootings this year’ has been refuted even in the Washington Post but I still hear it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...1d91fcec3fe_story.html?utm_term=.43f03e43d50a
2. The claim that gun rights folk want mentally ill people to have guns because they reversed a policy that
EVEN THE ACLU considered unfair.
3. The idea that the NRA contributes so much money they ‘own’ many of the politicians in Washington D.C.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/16/nra-money-isnt-why-gun-control-efforts-are-failing-commentary.html
4. The idea that the NRA is a terrorist organization.
5. One of the local radio stations in the Twin Cities, FM107.1 had Julia, the host of the ‘Lori and Julia’ show say about the shooting: "It's just the saddest thing ever. I hope, I hope we can do something cause this young man had a machine gun---and um that's not right."
6. The call for students to bring ‘8 ounce canned food items’ to throw at school shooters as a possible solution:
One Alabama middle school in 2015 sent letters home to parents asking them to send children the following day with “a canned food item” weighing eight ounces.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ngs-loom-large-public-imagination/1063337001/
7. The idea that we are all the poorer for the CDC not being able to lobby for gun control. (Note they still CAN do the research if they wanted to.
8. The idea that it should be okay to sue a gun manufacturer if someone uses their guns illegally and that legislation to prevent this type of silliness constitutes ‘bowing to special interests’.
It really does get tiring.