Gun-rights group pressures TV station after report

[SecularMotion]

RALEIGH -- The debate over guns often sparks raw emotion and lays down a sharp dividing line, but for a Raleigh TV station, it has become personal and financial.

In response to a WRAL report on concealed-weapons permits that included a searchable database, a North Carolina gun-rights organization has launched a campaign against the reporter and his supervisors and applied pressure to the station’s advertisers.

The incident demonstrates the prickliness of examining gun-related issues even before the shooting in Colorado stirred fresh debate. It also exposes tensions that can arise between advocates of the First Amendment and its protections of free speech and supporters of the Second Amendment with its right to bear arms.

Grass Roots North Carolina, described on its website as “North Carolina’s only ‘no compromise’ gun rights organization,” has not quieted its campaign against WRAL in the wake of the killings at the Aurora, Colo., movie theater.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/07/25/2218895/gun-rights-group-pressures-tv.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy

[ManiacJoe]

1. When you fuck up that badly, the TV station gets what it deserves.

[slackmaster]

2. WRAL's next in-depth report will be a database of battered women who have restraining orders

[Kaleva]

3. I don't know about this. The info put out by the station is already available to the public.

[ManiacJoe]

5. Available - yes. Readily - not so much.

[ileus]

4. I suppose this station thinks gun owners are the same as sex offenders.

[Hoyt]

7. I can see how someone might come to that conclusion, especially concerning rabid gun owners.

[spin]

8. Out of the 80 million gun owners just how many do you consider "rabid?" (n/t)

[Remmah2]

10. "rabid gun owners"???

We've all be vaccinated.

[GreenStormCloud]

6. The station should respect people's privacy. N/T

[Remmah2]

9. "The incident demonstrates the prickliness of examining gun-related issues "

Examination as only a proctologist could perform.


I wonder how people would feel about posting a public list of people with STD's?