The story about the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in support of gun rights was written straight enough, but oh the print headline writer must have felt compelled to take a rhetorical shot apart from the content. It is as if they know few people read the paper and they want to influence the opinion of as many as possible at a glance. The felt mission of the headline writer for this article must have been to sloganeer rather than entice or supply a neutral caption to the report. Thus the choice of words, “hidden gun” — no doubt meant to imply a sinister message.
One of the following headlines we think would have been more appropriate: “Court Rules On Guns,” “Ruling on Firearms,” or some related formulation. The words “Self- Defense Upheld” actually captures the courts reasoning. All three alternatives supplied here have fewer characters and spaces than what was used by the A-D. Note the online version of the article available here does not use the print version headline. R Mall
I’m sure the writer of this article was patting himself on the back today for his anti-gun headline on this piece a few days prior. If this article was published tomorrow it would probably read “NRA & Republicans Want to Kill Children.”
I call it the “Bloomberging” of America. You can set your watch to every time there is a shooting tragedy for him to pop up when the bodies are still warm to politicize and talk about weakening the 2nd Amendment.
And Peeeeeers Morgan on CNN puked all over himself again tonight when talking about the 2nd Amendment in America and how it ‘frightens him.’ And how his home country the UK is super awesome because of it’s totalitarian gun laws. God I hate these people!
Remember what Rahmbo said, never let a good crisis go to waste!