What do you do when the media is anti-firearm?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18152668/from/ET/
I'll quote something out of this (it's an opinion-editorial from MSNBC):
And we have already read foolish calls from conservative law professors and others who insist that deregulating a particularly deadly technology - firearms - would make our campuses safer. After all, they argue, if someone had been able to shoot back at the attacker, fewer people would have died. So Virginia should allow firearms on campus, they argue.
There's a mostly-fair and mostly-balanced bunch of links at BoingBoing, here: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/17/va_tech_guns_on_camp.html. I don't particularly like the tone of the second paragraph -- what "legal loophole"? But, on the flip side, most of the comments and links are actually pro-firearm, and there's a link to a similar case at Appalachian State where the gunman was stopped by two students with firearms pointed at him. (http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=3117)
So, my question is this:
What do you do when the media isn't enamored of one of the rights guaranteed in the document which defines the framework of the nation you live in?
What do you do when the media isn't enamored of, say, freedom of speech or freedom of the press?
I'll quote something out of this (it's an opinion-editorial from MSNBC):
And we have already read foolish calls from conservative law professors and others who insist that deregulating a particularly deadly technology - firearms - would make our campuses safer. After all, they argue, if someone had been able to shoot back at the attacker, fewer people would have died. So Virginia should allow firearms on campus, they argue.
There's a mostly-fair and mostly-balanced bunch of links at BoingBoing, here: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/17/va_tech_guns_on_camp.html. I don't particularly like the tone of the second paragraph -- what "legal loophole"? But, on the flip side, most of the comments and links are actually pro-firearm, and there's a link to a similar case at Appalachian State where the gunman was stopped by two students with firearms pointed at him. (http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=3117)
So, my question is this:
What do you do when the media isn't enamored of one of the rights guaranteed in the document which defines the framework of the nation you live in?
What do you do when the media isn't enamored of, say, freedom of speech or freedom of the press?