wheres the media coverage on this?
“wheres the media coverage on this?”
Everyone at Faux News is probably sitting in a strategy meeting, trying to figure out how to still get Giuliani elected.
They’ve been all over it. There is no bill named “the Veteran’s Disarmament Act.” The bill, in fact, restores the gun rights of veterans who have had them taken away for minor psychological problems.
More hysteria from the GOA. That’s what they’re good at.
The real name of the bill is the “NICS Improvement Act”. Here’s how one vitriolic antigun lobby feels about this bill:
http://www.vpc.org/press/0712nics.htm
For those who don’t want to click through, the title of the article is “Gun Lobby Hijacks Bill Intended to Improve Gun Buyer Background Checks”
If past portrayal of veterans, particularly combat veterans, is any indication the news media will be supporting the disarmament. The news media painted a distorted picture of all Vietnam veterans as psychotic, violent Rambos. In a sometimes more sympathetic light they paint war veterans as hapless victims of U.S. imperialism who are nevertheless scarred for life and in need of lifetime care and monitoring. I have seen several stories about the "psychic damage" being suffered by Iraq troops and how they will flood VA psychiatric wards, jails and prisons and detox units in the future.