Mr Perrin is correct in reference to hearts and minds; moreover affords the opportunity to extend the argument to the articulated reality of a defenseless neighbor in the face of another neighbor who eschews convention and bursts upon the scene with all intention to utilize a firearm for nefarious purpose. Indeed, he shows great restraint in not calling out the undercurrent sociological line-drawing when it comes to ideological preference; that is, the stark reality that all of societal life engages the calculation that some number of tragedies will occur regardless of legislative intention (here insert those items which assume a percentage of attrition). When it comes to pre-determined rights, even the Washington Post some years ago sounded upon a right precious to their interest, the fourth amendment, when editorializing that it is better for a suspect to go free than violate the right possessed by him/her to search/seizure protection. Surely, the Post engaged in ideological line-drawing; one posits whether the invited consequences of their apparent relativistic approach (repeat crime, escalated severity of crime, cost to society of repeated contact with the system) as an accepted price, equates to those possible outcomes of the exercise or maintenance of other unalieanable rights. The corrupt approach of the media supported argument that there should be zero negative consequence to the exercise of constitutional rights in non-preferred contexts is the threshold travesty anathema to a true understanding of our social contract; and simply an attempt to define up the starting point of the debate..
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 3:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Firearmsregprof Digest, Vol 75, Issue 3 Message: 2 Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:35:31 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Media lies, distortions, and innocent errors (and imprecision) Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:58:14AM -0800, Volokh, Eugene wrote: > Joe: I'm just not sure that this sort of imprecision - use "permit" to > mean "concealed carry license," even though on its face it could mean > "gun ownership permit" - would advance the reporter's supposed anti-gun > bias. And the inclusion of the sentence, precise or imprecise, yields > a pro-gun-rights result, which makes it even less likely that the > reporter's imprecision was part of an anti-gun agenda. Repeating things that give people the impression that one "normally" needs a license or permit to own a firearm creates a culture of expectation that it is unreasonable to expect to be able to own one *without* a permit. The sad fact is that many people tend to assume that if something is illegal it is wrong and, once they get it in their heads it's wrong, they react poorly to the idea of it being legal. Ultimately, I think the long-term harm of creating a pervasive public mindset that firearm ownership should require licenses or permits outweighs any short-term benefit from the unarticulated possibility that licensed or permit-holding gun owners are more law-abiding than those who own firearms and do not have licenses or permits pertaining to firearms. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/private/firearmsregprof/attachments/2 0100216/85f8415e/attachment-0001.pgp> ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Firearmsregprof mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others. End of Firearmsregprof Digest, Vol 75, Issue 3 ********************************************** _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
