oldbillthundercheif
Moderator
On NPR's legal show today objectivity went out the damn window. They had two "experts" from think-tanks and universities arguing the "collective right" interpretation of the 2nd, one guest from the Brady anti-iron organization, and the host. The host's voice warbled with some sort of strange combination of fear and hatred every time she said the word "gun".
That was it... not one single voice for the individual rights view. They had me yelling to myself in the car and they were not taking calls. Every person on the show was spewing some of the most easily argued-against drivel I've ever heard and nobody from our side was there to tear it up.
During the "technical" portion of the discussion one of them actually said something very close to this (I don't recall the exact wording):
"The pistol-grips on these semi-automatic assault weapons allow for very rapid shooting known as "sweeping fire"". Then he started in on the "grenade launching adapters" on "assault weapons" and finished off with a wacky comment about most hunting rifles being semi-automatic.
That guy was the moderate voice in the discussion.
I like NPR. I listen to it fairly often. This trash really chafes me, though.
Have they always been this slanted when dealing with gun control?
I've never noticed any glaring bias before today, but today was a whopper.
That was it... not one single voice for the individual rights view. They had me yelling to myself in the car and they were not taking calls. Every person on the show was spewing some of the most easily argued-against drivel I've ever heard and nobody from our side was there to tear it up.
During the "technical" portion of the discussion one of them actually said something very close to this (I don't recall the exact wording):
"The pistol-grips on these semi-automatic assault weapons allow for very rapid shooting known as "sweeping fire"". Then he started in on the "grenade launching adapters" on "assault weapons" and finished off with a wacky comment about most hunting rifles being semi-automatic.
That guy was the moderate voice in the discussion.
I like NPR. I listen to it fairly often. This trash really chafes me, though.
Have they always been this slanted when dealing with gun control?
I've never noticed any glaring bias before today, but today was a whopper.