A trend
The press always likes to point out the number of guns someone has during a particular incident. They do this as though the number of guns correlates with some perceived level of guilt. That is, he has this many guns, obviously he’s guilty. Even when that person is actually engaging in lawful activity. Another case: What media bias against guns and gun owners?
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:10 am
If you own a gun of any kind you must be a criminal. If you have ammunition for that gun you are a mass murderer waiting to kill. To the left there is no other option.
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:36 am
In October of 2007, The Oklahoman ran an article about a 14-year-old kid allegedly plotting a school massacre using a “9mm assault rifle that (his) mother had recently bought for him”
After a tip from another teen and his father, the police searched his room and found what the paper called an “arsenal”, consisting of the aforementioned rifle, plus “About 30 air-powered guns, plus swords, knives, hand grenades, a bomb-making book, videos of the 1999 Columbine attack…and violence-filled notebooks.” It also mentioned that the kid was home-schooled, and it might have been a case of big talk and poor judgment. There was no indication of any prior record.
No word on just how many “grenades” he had, nor their explosive potential, but I’m guessing they weren’t really all that spectacular. I was always curious as to why the paper even mentioned the air rifles and edged weapons. Seems to me they wanted to make the kid look a lot worse that he really was.
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
I saw one of those ‘cops’ type shows on TV one time. The cops pull a guy over on some traffic problem and after searching him find a small bag of contraban. They cuff him and put him in the patrol car. They go to search the car and the voice over says, “That is when the police made a chilling discovery. A loaded 9mm handgun was in the car!”
I laughed out loud and asked my wife what she thought the voice over would be if I were stopped and my car searched like that. She said, “I don’t know, but ‘chilling discovery’ would hardly cover it.”
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Then there’s the ever-popular; “…and he was found with over ONE HUNDRED ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION!!!” (cue sound effects from the movie “Psycho”)
“I would not call him a journalist by any standard…”
Uh, we need to understand the definition of “Journalist”. I need to add that as a separate entry, but you can find it in the text of this entry.
B Smith; Paintball grenades?