As you can probably guess, I had nothing to do with the "gun show loophole" article; I was in Ohio speaking at a conference and first learned of it when it appeared on Wired's website. If you would like to respond and politely suggest other approaches the article could have taken, I would encourage you to email: newsfeedback@wired.com -Declan On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 06:42:25PM -0400, Steve Furlong wrote:

A Wired article by Jeffrey Benner ("No Smoking Gun in Terror Bill") (http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,47286,00.html) uses the phrase "gun show loophole" quite a few times, but doesn't mention the Second Amendment (nor even the Ninth and Tenth) even once. No mention of how "closing the loophole" would prevent any domestic terrorism. No quotes from gun rights people but plenty from gun grabbers.

Perhaps this would be a good opportunity for Declan to emphasize that the opinions and obvious biases of some ill-informed, probably inbred, journalists are not necessarily the opinions of the publishers or other journalists.

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