20/20 will be airing a special hosted by Diane Sawyer called "If I only had a gun." Their basic thrust is that easy access to guns is dangerous and leads to violence. They also plan to prove that even if you had a gun, you wouldn't be able to use it to defend yourself, and that kids use them to kill themselves by accident anyway. They have a news article here that expands on their thesis in preparation for the special.
Putting aside that I find their thesis wrong headed and vile, the really disgusting part is the commercial they aired to promote the special. In the commercial, when they discuss "the attraction kids have to guns," they show hidden camera footage of a young child putting an unloaded revolver to it's head and pulling the trigger.
That's the part I find disgusting. In a vile attempt at sensationalism they intend to show children putting guns to their own heads in order to convince us that "guns are bad." Now there's a convincing logical argument. Read sarcasm.
On the website I listed above, they also claim that "most of the recent shootings have been carried out by legal gunmen." Of course, if you read the article they don't mean recent shootings, they mean the high profile mass murders which have occurred recently. They don't offer any statistics on guns used in "recent shootings."
The whole thing is pathetic. I even think it's evil. People may or may not agree with my position on private property rights, but what I've read and seen so far of this report doesn't justify as journalism. Instead, it's depraved sensationalism, intended to capitalize on tragedy and further a political agenda.
Shocking. Only, not really. And that's just sad.
-Rob
Putting aside that I find their thesis wrong headed and vile, the really disgusting part is the commercial they aired to promote the special. In the commercial, when they discuss "the attraction kids have to guns," they show hidden camera footage of a young child putting an unloaded revolver to it's head and pulling the trigger.
That's the part I find disgusting. In a vile attempt at sensationalism they intend to show children putting guns to their own heads in order to convince us that "guns are bad." Now there's a convincing logical argument. Read sarcasm.
On the website I listed above, they also claim that "most of the recent shootings have been carried out by legal gunmen." Of course, if you read the article they don't mean recent shootings, they mean the high profile mass murders which have occurred recently. They don't offer any statistics on guns used in "recent shootings."
The whole thing is pathetic. I even think it's evil. People may or may not agree with my position on private property rights, but what I've read and seen so far of this report doesn't justify as journalism. Instead, it's depraved sensationalism, intended to capitalize on tragedy and further a political agenda.
Shocking. Only, not really. And that's just sad.
-Rob
