Since the Newtown shootings, the entire Democrat-media complex has engaged in an all-out propaganda effort to marginalize and demonize law-abiding gun owners and those who support the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
The goal, of course, is to make Americans accept any rules that infringes on what can arguably be called the single most important freedom we have as citizens.
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it,” Saul Alinsky wrote. That is exactly what the complex is doing.
A recent report by Matt Hadro at Newsbusters, for example, says that CNN tilted a segment on gun control by a factor of four to one in favor of gun control.
Hadro wrote:
CNN keeps giving oxygen to the gun control movement. Correspondent Jason Carroll touted the push by New York City and Philadelphia for stricter gun laws and loaded his report with pro-gun control statements on Friday.
Carroll quoted four guests in favor of stricter gun laws and provided only one statement to the contrary, from Pennsylvania’s governor explaining why the state court struck down Philadelphia’s gun control measures.
- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a “no one” who governs the fourth-most populous state in the union, told an Albany radio station on December 20 that “Confiscation could be an option.”
- From the Daily Caller on Wednesday morning: “In an interview with the Daily Times Herald in Carroll, Iowa, state Rep. Dan Muhlbauer said governments should start confiscating semi-automatic rifles and other firearms.” A state legislator; obviously another “no one.”
- Several TV commentators who have the respect of the extreme left have called for confiscation, including, as Dan Gainor noted on December 16, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz. You can make the case that Schultz is a “nobody,” but Carol Costello would likely not be among those trying to make it.
- At the Washington Examiner on December 21, Joel Gehrke reported that “Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said that she and other gun control advocates are considering a law that would create a program to purchase weapons from gun owners, a proposal that could be compulsory.” A compulsory buyback such as Ms. Nobody Feinstein proposes is really confiscation with compensation.
Blumer also provided examples of those talking about repealing the Second Amendment:
- The four Supreme Court justices who dissented in the 2008 Heller decision which (we hope) established once and for all that the Second Amendment relates to an individual’s right, not just the rights of a collective “militia.”
- The four Supreme Court justices who dissented in the 2010 McDonald decision which ruled that, as described at the link, “the right of an individual to ‘keep and bear arms’ protected by the Second Amendment is incorporated by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and applies to the states.”
- President Obama himself, specifically in work done in conjunction with an initiative at the Joyce Foundation for several years beginning in 1999. The objective of the project was “the judicial obliteration of the Second Amendment” by stacking respected law review publications with anti-Second Amendment diatribes, giving court judges a falsely driven impression that the tide of legal opinion was turning.
- More recently, just a few who have weighed in with a wish that the Second Amendment be repealed include: Kurt Eichenwald at Vanity Fair, Myles Spencer at MinnPost.com, Edward Falzon at the Huffington Post, and probably half of the other items listed in a Google News search on “repeal the Second Amendment” (in quotes).
- Ben Shapiro: Piers Morgan a bully standing on the graves of Sandy Hook children
- Crybaby: Piers Morgan claims conservatives targeting him over gun control
- Petition demands FBI investigate Piers Morgan, CNN, for call to ‘pop’ Alex Jones
- CNN’s Piers Morgan: Supreme Court ‘dangerous’ on gun control
- Daily Beast writer: Piers Morgan should ‘pop’ Alex Jones with semi-automatic gun
- CNN’s Piers Morgan suggests amending the Bible over gay rights
- NRA ‘disappointed’ with Biden meeting, warns of anti-gun agenda
- Joe Biden: Obama considering executive order on guns
- Marine veteran to Piers Morgan: ‘We can’t give up’ gun rights out of fear
- Gawker claims death threats after posting list of NYC gun owners
- Gawker publishes list of legal gun owners in NYC, calls them ‘a**holes’
- Iowa Democrat: Ban and confiscate semi-automatic guns
- Des Moines columnist who called for death of gun owners now cries ‘satire’
- Alex Jones on CNN: ‘1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms’
- Des Moines columnist calls for repeal of Second Amendment, death of gun owners
- Pat Buchanan warns of revolution if government tries to confiscate weapons
- Connecticut lawmaker: Make names and addresses of gun owners public
- Video gives data on gun crime that media is ignoring
- Bank of America to gun maker: ‘We believe you should not be selling’ on Internet
- Sheriff: Inmates using Journal News gun owner map to threaten guards
- FBI: More people killed with hammers, clubs, fists than with rifles, shotguns
- Woman, family say they are being stalked thanks to Journal News publishing info
- Marine veteran to Sen. Dianne Feinstein: ‘I will not be disarmed’
- White House petition calls for Sen. Dianne Feinstein to be tried for treason
- Company runs out of AR-15 magazines, blames ‘sheep leftists’
- Six-year-old suspended from school for making finger gun, saying ‘pow’
- White House petition calls for Sen. Dianne Feinstein to be tried for treason
- Paper that published info on gun permit holders hires armed guards
- Report: CNN’s Piers Morgan upset Americans posing with guns in Christmas photos
- New York paper to publish more legal gun permit holder information
- Sheriff Joe Arpaio sending armed volunteer posse to protect schools
- Daily Beast op-ed: David Gregory should not be prosecuted for breaking gun law
- Email indicates NBC used illegal magazine on air after being denied permission
- Authorities investigating NBC’s David Gregory for gun law violation
- Gun debate pits liberals, media against Constitution, freedom-loving Americans
- Report: NBC’s David Gregory violated D.C. gun laws on ‘Meet the Press’
- WH petition calling for deportation of CNN’s Piers Morgan reaches 25,000 signature threshold
- New York paper publishes names, addresses of legal gun permit holders
- Piers Morgan: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre ‘dangerous, dim-witted, deluded menace’
- Ted Nugent to Piers Morgan on gun control: ‘Kiss my a**’
- Is it time for conservatives to boycott CNN for anti-Second Amendment propaganda?
- Classmate: Newtown shooter Adam Lanza had web page dedicated to Satan
- CNN’s Piers Morgan upset over White House petition calling for his deportation
- Liberals on Twitter call for murder of NRA members after NRA press conference (Video)
- Meet six people who would not be alive if liberals had their way on guns
- Actress Marg Helgenberger: ‘One can only hope’ NRA members are shot dead
- Democratic Party leader: Call to shoot NRA members not a death threat
- Texas Democratic Party leader, blogger calls for shooting NRA members
- Should an apology from a Democratic Party Executive Committee member cover calls for mass shootings?