Another Mistake in The New York Times

Fox News ^ | February 5, 2011 | John R. Lott Jr.

[JohnRLott]

Since the tragedy in Tucson, the New York Times has started an all-out campaign for gun control, with a relentless number of pieces -- news, editorials, and op-eds. In its advocacy, even the news stories are heavily biased by selectively quoting only academics who support pro-gun control positions. These seemingly unbiased sources are then contrasted with opposing views from clearly biased people on the other side, such as an NRA spokesman or a right-wing politician. The implied conclusion: scientific evidence favors gun control, but self-interest stands in the way.

Take two recent news stories by Michael Luo (here and here). He quotes seven academics who agreed with the New York Times position, but no one on the other side was even interviewed. Talk about misrepresenting academic opinion. The overwhelming majority of studies actually supports the claim that more guns mean less crime. Among peer-reviewed studies in academic journals, criminologists and economists studying right-to-carry laws have produced 18 national studies showing that these laws reduce violent crime, 10 indicate no discernible effect and none finds a bad effect from the law. One would never guess that 294 academics from institutions as diverse as Harvard, Stanford, Northwestern, the University of Pennsylvania, and UCLA released an open letter to Congress during 1999 warning that new gun laws were “ill advised.”

A frequent claim in these recent New York Times articles has been that more guns mean more gun deaths (see also here). . .

[Mind-numbed Robot]

As long as it leads to something, life is good.

[Gargantua]

Jesus did lots of things that I'll never do... healing cripples, giving sight to the blind, dying on the cross. The Bible tells us not to be unevenly yoked. It also tells us to be ready in any season to answer the question of why we have the hope that we do (how to respond knowledgably to a true seeker), but not to cast pearls before swine (not to lay His Word out to be spit upon and ridiculed by heathen).

Again, knowing when and where to apply which of those verses requires us to do quite a bit of judging... but such is the life of a follower of Jesus.

I am not perfect in my faith. I fall more times than I stand and walk straight. Which is why I need to be covered by The Blood. That said, those who are to be saved, and stand in glory before God on that great and terrible day, their names have been written in The Book Of Life since before time began. Neither you nor I can save anyone whose name already appears there, nor can we save any whose name does not.

I am ready, in any season, to answer why I have the hope that I do. And there are likely no Freepers, lurkers or Trolls here on FreeRepublic who have not already heard the life story of Jesus Christ.

Keep the faith. I will too.

;-\

[Mind-numbed Robot]

... their names have been written in The Book Of Life since before time began. Neither you nor I can save anyone whose name already appears there, nor can we save any whose name does not.

Then why try? Why believe? You either are or you are not. Do realize how close that is to Hegel's dialectical materialism on which Karl Marx's and Frederich Engel's Communist Manifesto is based?

I go back to my original opinion. You are a self-righteous judger who thinks you are among the chosen and can therefore pass judgement on others, even though you deny you think that. No need to discuss it further.

[OneWingedShark]

>Comedy is subjective, and I don’t find him funny. What do you want to debate next, what the best song or color is?

Color.
And the answer is, of course, Red.
Why red? Red is the color of blood — which is usually what anything of lasting value is paid with — and the linkage to the symbolic-attributes of blood:
— Strength
— Passion
— Courage {as in spilling blood}
— Life! {Life is in the blood}

Before you call me Communist, consider how many good things are commandeered and twisted to evil purposes:
- Language. It is good to be able to convey ideas; yet this gets twisted around, especially in the form of ‘political correctness.’
- Free Will, the freedom of choice, & the right to choose: all part of the same GREAT idea; horribly misapplied in the Abortion debate (another language-twisting).

Of course I’m also saying “Red” because it is my favorite color.
;)

[lp boonie]

You’re a bunghole?

[Gargantua]

"You’re a bunghole?"

It's actually much worse than that. If you're real lucky, you can just take my word for it.

8)