PA Bill Number: HR541
Title: Recognizing the month of October 2024 as "Domestic Violence Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Description: A Resolution recognizing the month of October 2024 as "Domestic Violence Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
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Last Action Date: Sep 27, 2024
Time to license guns - for journalists :: 02/13/2017
As big supporters of the Second Amendment, we have long opposed any suggestion that a license should be required to own a gun.
On reflection, maybe licensing is a good idea — at least for journalists. Or at least for journalists at The Washington Post.
David Fahrenthold is an outstanding reporter who should get a Pulitzer for his coverage of Donald Trump. But he should stay away from firearms. In a behind-the-scenes look at his year reporting on the president-elect, Fahrenthold relates this anecdote:
“Among the clutter on the coffee table, I found my 4-year-old’s Party Popper, a bright yellow gun that fired confetti. For some reason, I held the gun up to my eye and looked down the barrel, the way Yosemite Sam always does. It looked unloaded. Then, for some reason, I pulled the trigger. When I got to the ER. . . .”
A few days later another Post staffer, Michael Rosenwald, wrote about an effort to deregulate silencers: “Gun-control activists say silencers are getting quieter, particularly in combination with subsonic ammunition, which is less lethal but still damaging. They point to videos on YouTube in which silencers make high-powered rifles have ‘no more sound than a pellet gun,’ according to one demonstrator showing off a silenced semiautomatic .22LR.”
Oh dear. Silencers, or suppressors, do nothing of the sort. A high-powered rifle such as the .308 produces around 170 decibels, which is as loud as a commercial jetliner at takeoff. A silencer brings the sound down to perhaps 140 decibels, which is still much louder than a jackhammer. Don’t believe everything you see on TV.
But what about the .22LR? While still loud, it is quieter. But then, it is not a high-powered round. It’s laughably low-powered. In fact, probably the only round that packs less wallop is the .17 caliber, which uses CO2 cartridges to fire pellets, rather than gunpowder to fire bullets.
These are not isolated cases; in one particularly egregious recent incident, a Huffington Post reporter asked if the objects he took a picture of in Ferguson were rubber bullets. They were foam earplugs. There are many more examples.
The ignorance is embarrassing, but it does make the media’s support for gun control a tad more explicable: People fear what they don’t understand.
http://www.richmond.com/opinion/our-opinion/article_2a2064e4-64ab-5193-8ad7-d985439b22dd.html
