NY Times Editors Right On Guns!

It must be colder than I realized - the NY Times editors accidentally make an accurate statement about our gun control debate:

Sometimes in American politics it seems as if we are all talking past each other, that whatever one side says about an issue like, say, taxes zooms right past the other side. The current fight over gun control is not one of those moments. It is a howling storm of misrepresentation, sadly almost entirely from one side. This week’s developments fit the pattern.

They sure do! Here is the AP fact-checking Obama's press performance:

Obama measures wouldn't have kept guns from mass shooters

Ooops.

The WaPo's Glenn Kessler tackles the President's assertion that Internet gun sellers ‘operate under a different set of rules’:

We agree that Obama’s language is slippery and could be confusing to the average person who doesn’t know anything about FFLs and interstate requirements. There is nothing unique about the Internet; the laws governing private transactions and interstate sales are exactly the same. It’s the same as offering to sell a gun on a bulletin board, except the bulletin board is significantly larger. The Internet, and eletronic payment systems such as PayPal and Bitcoin, have certainly facilitated transactions that in the past would have been more difficult to arrange.

Obama erred in saying the rules are different for Internet sellers. They face the same rules as other sellers — rules that the administration now says it will enforce better.

"Obama erred"? Geez, "Obama erred and people got scared" doesn't have the same ring as "Obama lied while people died". Whatever. More on the rules for internet gun sales in this Congressional Research Service article.

Finally, the Captain grapples with Obama's insistence that any talk of gun confiscation is partisan absurdist fantasy:

Obama: Hey, forget what I said about Australia (twice) — no one’s looking to take away your guns!

When the NY Times made the claim that one side is engaged in a howling storm of misrepresentation I had a mad moment when I thought we would get some corrections to their absurd editorial which (a) tried to ride the dead horse claim that "40 percent of total gun sales" take place outside the background check framework and (b) called for a renewed assault weapons ban "that let shooters spray crowds of victims with up to 100-round bursts". Bring back Bonnie and Clyde!

I even had a hope that they would finally acknowledge their link to an Onion-style article in support of the claim that California had banned .45 ACP ammunition.

My bad - those howling misrepresentations will not be corrected.

Comments

[Thomas Collins]

More Obama/Jarrett slice and dice. It will redound to the benefit of The Hill or Biden or Warren. Must keep high credentialled/low info voters in Florida and Ohio happy. Well, Massachusetts, NY and California too, since they send money as well as assured electoral votes.

[henry]

The Onion at least knows it is writing parody.

[Got dem ol' narrative narrative blues.]

Extreme weather @ the NYT, a 'howling storm of misrepresentation'.

[Rootin Tootin]

NRA video on background checks...

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https://www.nranews.com/series/wayne-lapierre/video/wayne-lapierre-the-truth-about-background-checks/episode/wayne-lapierre-season-1-episode-5-the-truth-about-background-checks

[Beasts of England]

According to today's paper, Alabama set a one month record for FBI background checks (pistols): 47,605. Heck of a job, Crying Clown!

[Comanche Voter]

Hundred round bursts? M-16 magazine back in the day (1969) had a nominal 20 round magazine, but if you were smart, you never put in more than 19 to prevent jamming.

AK 47 might have had a 25 round clip--I dunno.

But if you want a 100 round burst (other than in some ignoranus reporter's wet dream) you better be carrying a belt fed M-60 or Ma Deuce (and you would not be carrying that .50 caliber machine gun--it would be up on a tripod. You could John Wayne the M-60). Now in Hollywood--where these clowns get their ideas, those machine guns never run out of bullets.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--a renewed assault weapons ban "that let shooters spray crowds of victims with up to 100-round bursts".--

I think they make 100 round drum magazines for ARs. How jam prone they are I don't know.

"Burst" is a term reserved by non-morons for the number of rounds fired by a single pull of the trigger of a fully automatic weapon.

[narciso]

moving toward a more selective audience,

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/cnn-hosts-shocked-shocked-anyone-might-believe-obama-wants-take-guns

[Sue]

Candidate Obama. 2008

-----So he tried again. “Even if I want to take them away, I don’t have the votes in Congress,’’ he said. “This can’t be the reason not to vote for me. Can everyone hear me in the back? I see a couple of sportsmen back there. I’m not going to take away your guns.’’----

http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-WB-5959

[GUS]

Imagine the Crying Commie gave the NRA half a billion dollars instead of THE DEATH HUT.

[Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom)]

I'm guessing that just reading the line "NY Times Editors Right..." was enough to leave everyone unable to respond.

Only *10 comments* so far, with that big 'ol fat slider just parked there over the middle of the plate.
Who woulda thunk it?

But after encountering the latest glitch whilst trying to post this, it turns out to be nothing more than another outage from the TyphusPad folks.

[Neo]

Hmm