Mother Jones magazine biased against RKBA

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Very interesting and enlightening article in the July/August issue of Mother Jones magazine distorting RKBA, Self Defense Laws, NRA, Florida and even Marion Hammer.

Titled “License To Kill” in the print magazine.

Different title but same article online:
“How the NRA and Its Allies Helped Spread a Radical Gun Law Nationwide”

Full article here:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/nra-alec-stand-your-ground

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It's Mother Jones.

I mean, really. Has nobody here actually read it before? They once ran an article suggesting that people who failed to recycle should have their children taken away.

We're not going to find a sympathetic voice there. Furthermore, their readership have already made up their minds, and the article is simply preaching to the choir.
 
They certainly did a real service to their reading public who live in rural areas with limited police forces and long response times, now didn't they?
 
They certainly did a real service to their reading public who live in rural areas with limited police forces and long response times, now didn't they?
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I can't say that rural people would be any more or any less affected by the article as city people. While city response times may be less than rural response times, the city response times are usually sufficiently long that the cops usually arrive well after the problem ran its course.

I also don't see where this was a service or disservice to its readers. It is a political commentary, biased, but still juse a commentary. I can't see where the article would cause people's decisions two own or have guns be changed. Those that don't have guns will continue to not have guns. Those with guns will continue to have guns.
 
A particularly subtle omission was the part about justifiable homicides increasing since the passage of stand your ground laws without mentioning anything about the increase, decrease, or lack of change in the rate of violent crime in general. What the author of this article conveniently ignores is that, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, violent crime has decreased significantly since 2005 and, as of 2011, is at a 20 year low in the state. Since 2005 when SYG was passed in Florida, the total number of violent crimes has decreased by 17.4% and the rate of violent crime per 100,000 people has decreased by 15.3%.

Justifiable Homicide, by definition, is not a crime. What has actually happened in Florida is that cases of lawful self-defense have increased while the violent crime rate has dropped. The author of this article cannot help but bring up the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman incident (it's mentioned within the very first sentence of the article) in an attempt to paint justifiable homicides as people who are getting away with murder. It is however, an unconvincing argument since the author provides absolutely no evidence that the majority, or even a significant number, of the justified homicides in Florida are anything but what they've been legally determined to be: genuine cases of self-defense (even the Martin/Zimmerman incident cannot be classified as an unjustified homicide at this point as it has not yet gone to trial).

Then again, none of this is particularly surprising considering the source. As others have pointed out, Mother Jones is not known for being a beacon of unbiased reporting and SYG, and RKBA in general for that matter, simply does not fit their political ideology. Even if one had never encountered that publication before, the plethora of advertisements for left-wing figures and causes on their website is what a detective would call a clue.
 
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Obviously rural people are supposed to have a campfire and a drum circle and sing koombaya with the people who want to kill them.

Haven't we learn by now that love and drumming solves all problems?
 
Haven't we learn by now that love and drumming solves all problems?
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It does if Neal Peart's doing the drumming. Otherwise, it's just bad hygiene and granola.

If I allowed myself to get all huffy every time a niche publication ran an anti-gun article, my blood pressure would be off the charts. They've got their audience, and they're pandering to them.

If this were on the front page of a major newspaper, I might be concerned. Otherwise, live and let live ignorant, man.
 
If I allowed myself to get all huffy every time a niche publication ran an anti-gun article, my blood pressure would be off the charts. They've got their audience, and they're pandering to them.
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Its about preaching to the Mother Jones choir, nothing more. A personal note: Both my sisters belong to that choir. :mad:
 
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I mean I'm just saying....

totally shocked.....

From the article

Do the laws have a disparate negative effect on minorities or juveniles? And, perhaps the simplest question: "Is it worth losing a life over a car radio?"

That's happened, too. In Miami, a man was granted immunity in March for chasing down a burglar and stabbing him after the thief swung a bag of stolen car radios at him. He "was well within his rights to pursue the victim and demand the return of his property," the judge ruled. A state attorney for Miami-Dade County disagreed: "She, in effect, is saying that it's appropriate to chase someone down with a knife to get property back."
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Not sure what the NRA has to do with stabbings but ok.... and how would a self defense law cause harm to minorities? They fail to provide an explanation of that altogether.

Also I was unaware that Florida had lowered the age to 17 for permits for military members. This is excellent news and long overdue.
 
If this were on the front page of a major newspaper
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The front page of a major newspaper is the modern-day equivalent of Page D44 of your local Classifieds these days. Which gives you a good idea of where Mother Jones is on that scale...
 
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