Gun show friggin loophole
Declan McCullagh
declan at well.com
Sat Oct 6 15:26:28 PDT 2001
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 at 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.
>
> --
> Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel
> 617-670-3793
>
> "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly
> while bad people will find a way around the laws." -- Plato
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