OPINION:
Many members of the mainstream press have been conditioned to believe that if someone hurts or if there is a problem in society, government must act. Not the private sector; not individual Americans; and not churches or non-profits, but government.
Whenever the press sees a government program enacted, they cheer and celebrate in their newsrooms. What they do not see or refuse to see because of ideological blindness is the trade-off that occurs. According to the Los Angeles Times, 77-80 percent of journalists favor strict gun-control measures. These people despise the Second Amendment so much that they will tilt their stories toward the pro-gun-control side of the argument at every opportunity.
It seems mainstream journalists will sell their ethics and professionalism, as well as their souls, to Lucifer himself to get gun-control laws enacted. But the laws they want will only affect law-biding citizens, not criminals who can get their arms illegally. Furthermore, when the laws they want are passed, they refuse to see what happens in the aftermath: high crime rates and high murder rates. This is happening in Chicago right now.
In the 1960s the majority of the mainstream press went out of their way to support President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “War on Poverty.” They praised the benefits and they praised the cost. Unfortunately, to this day they refuse to see how this ’war’ hurt more than it helped. They refuse to see how it decimated poor and minority families and minority communities.
President Reagan was correct when he stated that government was not a solution to a problem, but is itself the problem. History bears this reality out. Just don’t try to tell that to the mainstream press.
ALEX PUGLIESE
Kenilworth, N.J.
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