Pew Research reported just last December, [here], public support for gun rights has significantly increased. Overall, support for gun rights is up 7% from January 2013. Support for gun control is down 5%. More people believe guns protect them from being victims of crime.
I’m encouraged by the Soto v. Bushmaster lawsuit filed in Bridgeport late last year. Even a partial victory, (very difficult to overcome the tort protections in the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act), could set definitions into case law that might lay the groundwork for future attempts to abate the tragedy of mass public killings, where solidarity on the need for change to gun rights exists beyond partisan divides. The courts are a battlefront where the NRA is weaker, and their own weapons…like DC v. Heller…can be exploited by the opposition.
Will be watching that last one verrry closely. We had an argument here over Frontline and why there wasn’t more about the (financial) input of gun manufacturers.
One of the commenters…i forget which one…actually made it seem like corporate funding for NRA lobbying didn’t exist. Like all of their money came from the membership. He kind of tripped over himself saying it.
You have to take into account where Frontline/ProPublica/PBS funding comes from. Bill and Melinda Gates. David Koch. The Haglers. The Park Foundation. I imagine those folks get a little uncomfortable these days about reports that feature deep-pocket influence on public policy decisions. I imagine investigative reporters who rely on that kind of funding have to make some tough decisions on what to include in their reporting.
I saw Koch’s name at the end, yeah. For so many media outlets, the business model is no longer a business model, but a begging model. I don’t have an alternative.
One can still get quality output from those sources. I stop in at ProPublica regularly, and watch a good deal of PBS news analyses. (Buh-Bye Moyers, though.) Even Jeremy Scahill is in somebody’s pocket now. Money talks.
Finally watched it last night. So now I know When It Changed, but not why. Or how much it spends or where that money comes from. It was late. Maybe I nodded off and missed that part.
You can watch it here.
Dating Jesus 
Pew Research reported just last December, [here], public support for gun rights has significantly increased. Overall, support for gun rights is up 7% from January 2013. Support for gun control is down 5%. More people believe guns protect them from being victims of crime.
I’m encouraged by the Soto v. Bushmaster lawsuit filed in Bridgeport late last year. Even a partial victory, (very difficult to overcome the tort protections in the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act), could set definitions into case law that might lay the groundwork for future attempts to abate the tragedy of mass public killings, where solidarity on the need for change to gun rights exists beyond partisan divides. The courts are a battlefront where the NRA is weaker, and their own weapons…like DC v. Heller…can be exploited by the opposition.
Will be watching that last one verrry closely. We had an argument here over Frontline and why there wasn’t more about the (financial) input of gun manufacturers.
One of the commenters…i forget which one…actually made it seem like corporate funding for NRA lobbying didn’t exist. Like all of their money came from the membership. He kind of tripped over himself saying it.
You have to take into account where Frontline/ProPublica/PBS funding comes from. Bill and Melinda Gates. David Koch. The Haglers. The Park Foundation. I imagine those folks get a little uncomfortable these days about reports that feature deep-pocket influence on public policy decisions. I imagine investigative reporters who rely on that kind of funding have to make some tough decisions on what to include in their reporting.
I saw Koch’s name at the end, yeah. For so many media outlets, the business model is no longer a business model, but a begging model. I don’t have an alternative.
One can still get quality output from those sources. I stop in at ProPublica regularly, and watch a good deal of PBS news analyses. (Buh-Bye Moyers, though.) Even Jeremy Scahill is in somebody’s pocket now. Money talks.
Finally watched it last night. So now I know When It Changed, but not why. Or how much it spends or where that money comes from. It was late. Maybe I nodded off and missed that part.
No. These are all good questions. Why. Where. How much.