The Erie Times editorial of 23 Dec advocates more gun control laws in the wake of Sandy Hook. No surprise there, they are an anti-gun paper.
Pat Cuneo is the editorial voice. ’nuff said?
The mainstream media and government is concentrating on gun control. To paraphrase myself in the last post, we had a high school hunting club where many brought rifles and shotguns to school, hunting before and after school. The only gun violence we heard about was massacres in Viet Nam.
What is different now?
Alternative media, primarily Libertarian and paleo-conservative, have the same question and are looking elsewhere. Violent movies, violent computer games, the psychiatry biz and their friends the pharmaceutical industry.
How many of these whackos are on a mental health drugs that makes them kill crazy?
Why isn’t the Times addressing this?
The paper advised us to vote for a progressive, corporatist, anti-capitalist candidate in Obama. The logical extension is this is the Times agenda also. You say “but the Times accepts gun sales advertising and has a hunting column”. That non-sequitur can be explained.
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