Left Rudder

Another example where the media gets it wrong is the fact they buy into the NRA’s myth of 20,000 gun laws. The standard NRA talking point is that there are 20,000 gun laws which should be more than enough and if we just enforce those (as opposed to new laws), there’ll be no problems regarding gun-related crime.

A complacent and compliant media buys into this myth.

Of course, there aren’t 20,000 gun laws.

So how many gun-control laws are there? Recently, we assembled a significant new database of major state gun laws, including laws governing how firearms are designed, manufactured, sold, and possessed, that sheds some light on the 20,000 figure. Although we didn’t include every possible law, our count yields approximately 300 different state laws as of 1999. These laws were defined as those that affect the manufacture, design, sale, purchase, and possession of firearms. Adding the few federal laws wouldn’t appreciably increase the total.

A common tactic among gunloons is to complain the media isn’t presenting their side or giving them a fair shake. They never can cite concrete examples of this bias–but much of what gunloons believe is a matter of faith.

They just know it.

Of course, this is what is known as working the refs. In reality, the media does a pretty poor job of presenting either side of the gun issue–and that’s how the gunloons like it. After all, there’s no credible research that backs up what gunloons like to tout and the fact is many Americans simply believe gun laws are actually stricter than they are.

As an example, 70% of Americans think licensing and registration of firearms already exists in our county. This is the media’s fault, as when polls showed 69% of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11.

Apparently Young Master Bush is expected to replace an incompetent criminal, Abu Gonzales, with still another crook–Ted Olson–as Attorney General.

This Ted Olson, as profiled by Dave Neiwert.

Dems should tell Young Master Bush his nominee is DOA.