New York Times Laments Gun Companies Ending Freebies for Pro-Gun Control Authors

Breitbart.com/Big-Journalism ^ | 1-5-2014 | AWR Hawkins

[servo1969]

On November 5th Breitbart News reported that Metcalf used his G&A column to argue that all constitutional rights have and need regulation, including 2nd Amendment rights. The outcry against Metcalf was immediate and his firing swift. On November 7th Breitbart News reported that Metcalf had been fired by G&A.

According to NYT, Metcalf's life changed completely thereafter – his television show was ended, "gun companies... stopped flying him around the world," and they've also stopped sending him samples of the newest guns to review.

[ThunderSleeps]

The fundamental error in using the "shout 'fire' in a theater" argument in regards to 2nd Amendment infringements is this... Sure, I should not shout "fire" in a theater and potentially cause harm to others... However, if the theater really is on fire I can still shout fire and warn them.

However, once the government has infringed upon my ability to own firearms I'm done. If I need a firearm I will not have time to obtain permission from the government to get one.

In other words, in order to have the right I must, well, have the right. I do not have the right if I must go obtain it from some other entity. I must be responsible for if, when, where, and how I exercise it. If some other entity is determining that, then I no-longer have it.

[junta]

Metcalf and his buddies were always babbling that “modern sporting rifles” line.

[OldMissileer]

...“modern sporting rifles”...

I hate that term!

A rifle is a rifle, no matter what it looks like.

I know a couple of people who use AR type rifles for hunting but most folks I know use a more traditional style weapon. This does not mean I think they should be used for that purpose, is is the fact that we have allowed the left to make a distinction just by the looks of the gun.

I can purchase 10-round mags for my Remington 742 30-06 and make someone's day a lot more miserable than with a 5.56 NATO round. If that is the case then what is the difference between that more traditional looking rifle then one of my ARs?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Personally, I wish that gun companies would be more outgoing with their customers, mostly because they have a truly friendly customer base. This is not to say that they are in any way discourteous or unfriendly, but in effect, that they have “fans”, just like celebrities, who really appreciate it when they take the time to say “Hi!” and wave.

An excellent example is the annual SHOT show in Las Vegas, not open to the public. Granted, with just industry people there, they have crowds in excess of 50,000, but with the public allowed, just to look if not buy, since there are no sales at the show, the crowds would be ginormous, and hot new guns could get thousands of pre-orders, to give manufacturers a heads-up for production.

They would likely need to subdivide it into regional shows, but even then the crowds would likely be very large.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks servo1969.

Thank a Liberal for America’s Gun Ownership
Townhall.com | 1-6-2013 | Michael Schaus
Posted on 1/6/2014 12:43:06 AM by servo1969
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3108776/posts

[GOPJ]

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[GBA]

On November 5th Breitbart News reported that Metcalf used his G&A column to argue that all constitutional rights have and need regulation, including 2nd Amendment rights.

On November 7th Breitbart News reported that Metcalf had been fired by G&A.

I have a dream. That one day we live in a world where the outcry is just as loud nationwide, against those who attack any of our inalienable rights, just as with the G&A readers that one day in November. I have a dream.

[Bob]

Didn't read the column but guessing here that he used the standard argument about yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre.
One major problem is that if a right is regulated, it's important to see who's doing the regulating or it will quickly become throttling.

To anyone who suggests any relation at all between gun control and shouting "Fire" in a theater, I'd propose that the way to make them really equivalent is to require that duct-tape be put on the mouth of anyone who enters a theater. (If that doesn't bother them, perhaps cutting everyone's vocal cords would cross the line for them.)